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UL’s Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences graduates Paul Kinnerk, Luke Barrett and Evan Talty are among those powering the coach education evolution.
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Dr Gail Flanagan, from UL's School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, spoke to Tom Dunne on Newstalk about the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year, 'rage bait', and the new words that have entered the lexicon.
Listen back: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
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A state-of-the-art new laboratory at University of Limerick is set to transform science and engineering education, thanks to a major philanthropic gift from Ei Electronics to the UL Foundation.
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In our latest Alumni Spotlight, we speak to musician, educator, composer and cultural leader Ernestine Healy, graduate of UL's Graduate Diploma in Music Education (now the PME in Music) and the MA in Irish Traditional Music Performance.
Read more: www.ul.ie/news/alumni-...
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Adeola's research is part of the Stable Lives Safer Streets project, which is a research collaboration between UL, Queen's University Belfast & The Centre for Effective Services, funded by the HEA's North South Research Programme.
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"This VR game may be a more fun way to measure self-control & could potentially change the way we assess a young person's likelihood of committing crimes."
In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's E.O. Adeola Babatunde writes about her research on virtual reality & youth offending.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The Local Leadership Programme, developed by UL’s @reppp-ul.bsky.social and funded by @deptjusticeirl.bsky.social, is supporting local leaders and public officials to rethink how they combat complex social issues with 150 people having participated in the programme since 2019.
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Helen Fitzgerald, Assistant Director of REPPP; Dr Johnny Connolly, project lead on REPPP’s Local Leadership Programme; Professor Lucy Ann Buckley, Head of UL's School of Law; Dr Seán Redmond, Adjunct Professor of Youth Justice and Director of REPPP. They are standing on a stairway that is overlooking a pond. They are each holding a copy of a the Local Leadership Programme report.
In the Irish Examiner, Dr Johnny Connolly speaks about the work of UL's Local Leadership Programme whose new report reveals that antisocial behaviour is the most pressing problem for communities battling with persistent social issues
Read on: www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College came together last week to celebrate Ireland’s remarkable legacy as a global pioneer in university-level modern language education.
Read on: www.ul.ie/news/ul-and-...
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The Last Chapter: The Venerable Bede translating the Gospel of John on his deathbed. A painting by J Doyle Penrose (1902) of the medieval scholar St Bede. He is sitting on a bed as a man sits in front of him writing on parchment. There are two men standing in the background. St Bede has a long grey beard and there are parchments on his lap.
"For Bede, the Irish were just "much worthier heralds" than the Britons."
In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Aaron Keane, a PhD researcher in Early Medieval Old English and Latin, explores St Bede's admiration for the Irish.
Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Dr Vikram Niranjan from UL’s School of Medicine, explains the connection between root canals and blood sugar.
Read more: theconversation.com/root-canals-...
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Dr Kieran Murray from UL’s School of Medicine discusses new research which finds that problem gambling is six times more likely among intercounty GAA players than the rest of the population.
Read more: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Congratulating both novelists, Dr Sandra Joyce, Dean of UL's Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, said:
“This achievement not only celebrates their individual excellence but also reflects the collaborative spirit and commitment to innovation that define the Creative Writing team at UL."
UL graduate and guest lecturer, Gráinne O'Brien, and UL Professor of Creative Writing, Joseph O'Connor, at the An Post Irish Book Awards. They are both smiling as they hold their awards. Both awards are a green and white sculpture of a woman with her arms raised and placed on a base that says 'An Post Irish Book Awards'.
UL's Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing, Professor Joseph O'Connor, and Gráinne O’Brien, a graduate of UL's MA in Creative Writing and guest lecturer at UL, both received awards at last night's An Post Irish Book Awards.
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A conference hosted by University of Limerick has received global recognition from the International Congress and Convention Association's Incredible Impacts Programme.
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Movember backs pioneering University Hospital Limerick and University of Limerick research project focused on improving prostate cancer care for older men living in rural areas of the Mid-West.
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University of Limerick and Aer Lingus are to work together on an exciting new partnership aimed at advancing innovation in aeronautical engineering through cutting-edge research.
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Five first year students from University of Limerick’s Faculty of Science and Engineering have been awarded a prestigious Naughton Foundation Scholarship worth €25,000 each to pursue their third level studies.
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UL graduate and aerialist Bethany Hayes. She is suspended in the air as she performs with a yellow silk wrapped around her body. She is wearing a pink outfit.
"The Irish World Academy & UL have shown me that I can make my passion into a career with hard work & dedication"
In this week's Alumni Spotlight, we chat to BA in Irish Dance graduate Bethany Hayes who shares her journey from Irish dancer to aerial performer
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In her latest article for The Conversation, Dr Gulnaz Anjum from UL’s Department of Psychology explores how stories of personal experience cut through climate fatigue in ways that global negotiations can’t.
Read more: theconversation.com/how-stories-...
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UL’s Celina Carato and Dr Anthony Kelly discuss how AI could be bad for your health in RTÉ Brainstorm.
Read more: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Three UL research projects, including the first ever Irish study into the lived experiences of victim-survivors in sexual offence trials, have been awarded almost €700,000 under the @researchireland.ie Collaborative Alliances for Societal Challenges programme
www.ul.ie/news/ul-proj...
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UL's School of Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics recently welcomed local secondary school students to campus, to experience the joy of learning languages and cultures as part of its annual #ThinkLanguages event.
Read on: www.ul.ie/news/from-es...
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Josh McGiff from UL’s Department of Computer Science and Information Systems asks if AI can even understand the Irish Language in RTÉ Brainstorm
Read more: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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“What are we waiting for?”
Dr James Carr, Associate Professor in UL’s Department of Sociology, outlines how a lack of action on hate speech is contributing to racist violence in Ireland.
Read in the Irish Examiner:
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Professor Ray O'Connor from UL's School of Medicine discusses the potential disadvantages of drugs increasingly used by patients to achieve greater weight loss in RTÉ Brainstorm.
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A group of seven young adults stand in a row outdoors at night in front of a lit university building. Each person represents a different sport: one holds a Gaelic football, another has a rowing oar raised, one tosses a basketball, another holds a javelin, one has a boxing glove, and another holds a hurley. They are smiling and confidently posing, looking straight ahead.
A record 140 sports scholars have been awarded UL Sports Scholarships for 2025, showcasing the unmatched depth and ambition of UL’s high-performance sporting community.
This milestone reinforces UL’s position as Ireland’s sports campus for elite student-athletes.
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From Spinal Tap to The Soggy Bottom Boys, Steve Ryan from UL's Irish World Academy writes in The Conversation about the movie bands that have "transcended and overshadowed their celluloid source material to soar into a life of their own".
Read on: theconversation.com/the-five-bes...
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In UL’s latest article for RTÉ Brainstorm, Dr Karen O’Brien, School of Law, discusses the DJ Carey court case and how personal insolvency laws and debt write-offs don't operate in the same way for all debtors.
Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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In RTÉ Brainstorm, Professor Kevin Murphy, from UL's Kemmy Business School, examines the growing trend of multiple rounds of assessment for job applicants and advises employers to "think carefully before asking for just one more round of interviews".
Read: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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