Archive for the ‘press’ Category

Waterford, a university city

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Published today in the Irish Times is an article by Noel Whelan surrounding the application of WIT for university status. Yet another hugely supportive article that follows on from the Jim Power article in yesterday’s Irish Examiner. In his article Noel explicitly states that "Waterford's application should ...

Case for University in South East

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Published in the Irish Examiner on March 21st, is an article by Jim Power, Chief Economist with Friends First. In his article Jim states that a university for the South East region would revive the entire South East region and that a university would greatly help to ...

Official Statement from Dr. Martin Mansergh

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

This weekend FUSE received an official statement from Dr. Martin Mansergh, TD for Tipperary South, showing his support for the university of the South East. In his statement, Dr. Mansergh draws attention to the progressive attitude of neighbouring countries such as Britain, toward catering for all regions ...

FUSE in St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

March 18, 2008 – 12:05 pm FUSE in St. Patrick’s Day Parade Originally uploaded by se4u2008FUSE were represented in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Waterford City. Several groups carried banners of support for the campaign and other entries in the parade also did their bit to ...

GAA Support

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Photo GAA Support Originally uploaded by se4u2008The Friends of the University for the South East visited the National Hurling League clash between Waterford and Kilkenny at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny today. There was a great turn out for the game and many of the supporters took an ...

Newsletters

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Since we started to send out our newsletters we have noticed that some e-mail addresses are bouncing back as they were accidentally typed incorrectly or the e-mail server is incorrectly marking our newsletter as spam. To ensure that you don’t miss out on our newsletters we have ...

Dáil Debate March 14th

Friday, March 14th, 2008

The issue of the University for the South East was debated in the Dáil today with contributions from many members of the house including Deputy Tom Hayes and Deputy Martin Mansergh. The discussion was incredibly favourable of a university being established in the South East, with emphasis ...

Fine Gael Position

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

This Sunday Fine Gael TD, Brian Hayes, unveiled the Fine Gael position on the re-designation of WIT to be the university for the South East. FUSE welcome this statement of support by Fine Gael, that the South East region is ready for a university. It is the ...

IBEC Support

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

This morning, a letter from IBEC went out to all the regional companies asking them to support the FUSE campaign and support the drive for the university in the South East. So far we have received a great response from this with many company directors and management ...

Support from hurlers

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Last Saturday members of the FUSE group personally distributed over 3000 flyers to the majority of retail businesses in Waterford City in an attempt to raise awareness of campaign. On Sunday members of the FUSE group attended the National Hurling League game between Wexford and Kilkenny in ...


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