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University of Galway Students’ Union has condemned Galway student accommodation provider, Hubble Living, for their accommodation fee increases for the 2024/25 academic year.

NUI Galway Students’ Union is demanding an the Student Contribution Fee. The fee is €3,000 in the Republic of Ireland - the highest undergraduate fees in the EU.

Leading student groups, including Free Education for Everyone (FEE) and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), have attacked the decision of more than 20 third level institutions, including NUIG and GMIT, to agree a student fees loan deal with the Bank of Ireland.

Galway students will hold a public demonstration against the planned increase of third-level fees, next week as part of a National Day of Action against education cuts.

There were dramatic scenes at the constituency office of a Galway West TD yesterday afternoon after a number of Free Education for Everyone (FEE) members occupied the building to protest against student fee hikes, however tensions escalated during an hour-long stand-off involving gardai and the fire brigade, resulting in nine arrests.

More than 2,000 students from NUI Galway and GMIT and their supporters are expected to descend on Spanish Arch at lunchtime today to protest against proposed Government plans to increase registration fees and impose cuts to the student maintenance grant.

It was nothing like John Prescott v Craig Evans on the campaign trail of the 2001 British election, but a Government minister and a protester had something of a scuffle in NUIG on Tuesday night.

The history of student activism is heroic, forceful, naive, idealistic, and often bloody.

Student protests and scuffles with the Gardaí on Monday night resulted in the cancellation of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s visit to NUI, Galway, leading to condemnation of the student protesters by some of their campus colleagues.