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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Eamon Gilmore (Labour Party leader) came to WIT on Thursday last to address an audience. During his speech he paid particular focus to the needs of the South East region and with specific emphasis on a university for the region, stated that this was an urgent and necessary catalyst to ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
"It deserves to be successful on its own merits. And it should be possible to ring fence a decision in its favour to ensure the role of the wider IoT sector is not compromised."
Those are the words that echoed through the editorial appearing in the Irish Times on Saturday 5th ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
On Monday morning at 10:30 the runners departed the Clock Tower in Waterford City and made their way to Kilkenny. On Tuesday they passed through Carlow and along the N81, reaching Dublin late that evening. On Wednesday the baton was passed to Ken McGrath and Michael "Brick" Walsh who carried ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Over the past number of weeks, FUSE has been extremely active in grass roots campaigning and garnering support for the establishment of a university for the South-East region. Members of FUSE have campaigned in town centres and at GAA matches across the region. Our spokesman, Dr. Mark Rowe, has made ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
An article in today's Irish Times by Ed Walsh, founding president of the University of Limerick, states unequivocally that the South East is the only region in Ireland with a legitimate claim for a new university. Ed examines the recent application by CIT and describes this as "mischievous and groundless". He ...
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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 not be stalled ...
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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 reduce the disparity ...
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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 equally, with universities. ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
FUSE in St. Patrick's Day Parade Originally uploaded by se4u2008 FUSE 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 raise awareness for the university issue ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Photo GAA Support Originally uploaded by se4u2008
The 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 interest in events off ...
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