By Editor in Chief Jack Brady.

VP Emily Cathcart criticised the supposed lack of work that VP Seán Greene has provided the Students’ Union with recently at yesterday’s Class Representative Council meeting. 

Cathcart raised the issue virtually at the meeting focused on a vote to remain in affiliation with AMLÉ, the national representative body for third-level students in Ireland.

The VP for Community and Citizenship struck out at Greene’s “audacity” to promote his own presidential campaign, while work is left to be done in the Union.

The issue arose during the officer’s report, in which Cathcart claimed that the VP for Academic Life did little to no work on exam support services, which was allegedly completed by VP for Wellbeing, Lauren Joyce.

Each report is accepted through a voting system for the class representatives in attendance. Greene’s report passed at 51% to 49%; small margins in comparison to the 100% that voted in favour of remaining in AMLÉ. 

If a vote on an officer’s report fails twice, a vote for no confidence is then called, Class Representative Council Chairperson Abigail Reddin explained.

While Joyce would not comment on the specific argument between her fellow sabbatical officers, she noted that “there is a clear unequal divide in the amount of work done by the five sabbatical officers”. 

AMLÉ’s Vice President for Dublin Region, Daniel Walsh was in attendance, and reflected that “disagreements within teams are hardly uncommon”.

It is “nigh inevitable when you have a team of officers who are all very passionate about their job,” he added.

Students’ Union President, Shane Murphy was not in physical attendance, and did not deliver his President’s report.

Greene rebuked Cathcart’s claims in a comprehensive comment to The Bulletin as “categorically untrue”, citing text messages from November 2025 that show notes taken in regards to academic support. 

According to the VP for Academic Life, the VP for Community and Citizenship had previously expressed that it was left far too late ordering calculators for exams, a “mistake I took full responsibility for, and rectified before it ever became an issue for students, ” he explained.

Greene further maintains that he has never let his campaign get in the way of his current duties as VP for Academic Life

“Over the course of this week and last week, I have been recording and editing a number of videos while on campus, and even while sitting in the office, but always while I have been clocked out,” he stated, noting that the majority of his campaign work has already been completed. 

The 2026 Presidential Candidate urges people to look at the Constitutional Review Working Group which he has put a huge amount of work into, alongside his engagement with class representatives that can be viewed in his officer reports under the project name “Class Reps and Union Democracy” which have previously been approved by the class representative council. 

Cathcart, who was asked for a comment, is currently on sick leave.

The ostensible breakdown of the Students’ Union comes just one week before the next is set to be elected on the 18th of February.

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