“Nearly 500 female students across a number of Limerick colleges have allegedly signed up with a website to find a ‘sugar daddy’ to help fund their studies, those behind a global site have claimed …” (more)
[Anne Sheridan, Limerick Leader, 18 May]
“I hate mornings. Really. If mornings were my bed, I’d sleep on the floor. But we’ve all got to deal with the things. So up I get around 7, grumpily dig our three kids out of bed, and get the middle one off to Montessori school …” (more)
[Stephen Kinsella, 12 May]
“A University of Limerick researcher has been selected to undergo two days of ‘gruelling’ tests in London this summer to determine if she has what it takes to go into space …” (more)
[Anne Sheridan, Limerick Leader, 11 May]
“Munster will base their main squad training centre at the University of Limerick from the start of the 2014/15 season …” (more)
[Conor George, Independent, 11 May]
“Munster will establish their main squad training centre at a new purpose-built facility at the University of Limerick which is expected to be fully operational from 2015.At present the Munster squad train between bases in Limerick and Cork …” (more)
[Irish Times, 10 May]
“Trinity College Dublin tops a list of eight Irish colleges which feature in the top 200 of subject-by-subject rankings of the world’s universities. It features in the top 200 for 24 of the 30 study disciplines for which tables were compiled by QS World University Rankings, including top-50 placings for English language and literature, politics, history, and modern languages …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 8 May]
“Waterford Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin dealt with the highest number of allegations of bullying among its staff and students in the past five years, with WIT paying more than €100,000 in investigation and legal fees …” (more)
[Irish Examiner, 29 April]
“The University of Limerick is leading a European wide marine exercise to deal with the possibility a major environmental disaster …” (more)
[Anne Sheridan, Limerick Leader, 23 April]
“UL students won’t have any studying excuses in the run-up to exams as a library noise monitor will ensure silence is golden. The Glucksman Library received over 20 applications to their job advert looking to recruit a monitor to help manage noise …” (more)
[Donal O’Regan, Limerick Leader, 21 April]
“A team of researchers from University of Limerick (UL) is pioneering a new type of sensor technology that uses using real-time monitoring, with the goal of ensuring more effective treatment for cancer patients who are undergoing radiotherapy …” (more)
[Carmel Doyle, Silicon Republic, 15 April]
“People are normally used to seeing State Pathologist Marie Cassidy wearing a white forensic suit at crime scenes across the country …” (more)
[Barry Duggan, Independent, 9 April]
“60% of programmes at the University of Limerick saw a ‘strong increase’ in the number of CAO applications, with science programmes seeing the largest increase and IT seeing the main decrease …” (more)
[Anne Sheridan, Limerick Leader, 19 March]
“The University of Limerick had real cause to celebrate International Women’s day, as it is leading the way in the country with almost double the average number of female professors. On average in Ireland, 18% of professors are female, whereas 34% of UL professors are women …” (more)
[Limerick Leader, 15 March]
“It was a case of back to the future when former Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy gave her inaugural lecture as adjunct Professor of Journalism at the University of Limerick on Wednesday …” (more)
[Limerick Post, 28 February]
“Research into wave energy and how to screen babies for diseases are among the five projects from University College Cork chosen for a funding boost. The university will lead five out of the seven research projects chosen for the €300m fund for science research over the next six years …” (more)
[Mary Regan, Irish Examiner, 26 February]
“RAG Week is a topic that has provokes strong emotions in recent weeks, but what is RAG all about? Where did RAG Week come from? What does the future hold for RAG? …” (more)
[Daithí de Buitléir, TheJournal.ie, 23 February]
“Universities and institutes of technology across the country are owed millions in unpaid student fees. Several leading institutions have revealed they are owed large sums by both current and former students …” (more)
[Barry Duggan, Independent, 18 February]
“A third Irish university is using debt-collection agencies to recoup outstanding student fees …” (more)
[Barry Duggan, Independent, 14 February]
“The University of Limerick (UL) said today that it has received funding for an additional 100 free places on software development and cloud computing programmes under the HEA’s ICT Skills Programme 2013 …” (more)
[Grainne Rothery, Business and Leadership, 13 February]
“Students who have graduated from the University of Limerick without paying registration fees are not receiving parchments or transcripts of their exam results, it has emerged …” (more)
[Mike Dwane, Limerick Leader, 13 February]
