Students lobby Labour over pledge not to raise registration fee

About 70 students angry about an anticipated increase in third-level registration fees and worried about a cut in grants held a loud protest outside Labour Party TD Ciara Conway’s constituency office yesterday.

Ms Conway was not present to meet the students in her Dungarvan, Co Waterford base as she was in the Dáil but the protesters posted letters through her door and also sent a number of Twitter messages to the backbencher.

The lunchtime protest consisted mainly of students from Waterford Institute of Technology and was the 14th of 15 being held in the Union of Students in Ireland’s current ‘Fed Up — Stand Up’ campaign about fees and grants.