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Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Patrick O’Donovan has welcomed the establishment of Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland, Ireland’s new competitive research and innovation funding agency.

Local Fianna Fáil Deputy, Robert Tro,y has said that a package of supports for third-level students and researchers to help with the cost of education will be an enormous help as they prepare for a new term in college.

Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) PhD student Aaron Maloney has been awarded this year’s Jane Grimson Medal of Excellence by the Irish Research Council (IRC).

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris has announced further details of the cost of education measures under Budget 2024.

The details of the tertiary education package for Budget 2024 has received a poor welcome from University of Galway students, with the Postgraduate Workers Organisation (PWO) calling it the ‘bare minimum’ and Student Union President, Dean Kenny, describing it as ‘welcome, but not enough’.

The third Traveller to be awarded a PhD in the history of the State, Dr Hannagh McGinley (Lecturer in Education at Mary Immaculate College) sees herself as a living example to other Travellers as to what can be achieved in education. Her example, however, bucks the trend of poor Traveller education retention rates, ingrained, although typically unconscious, discrimination against Travellers and a mutual misunderstanding between the community and the education system.

A mutual love of maths led to Róisín Hill and her daughter Aoife being conferred with Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) research degrees, funded under the Irish Research Council (IRC) Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme, by the University of Galway at its summer 2023 graduation.

Scientists at University of Galway have detailed a new discovery with the potential to improve treatment options for superbug MRSA infections with penicillin-type antibiotics that have become ineffective on their own.

Kepak Kilbeggan has launched an innovative sustainability research initiative aimed at protecting, enhancing, and promoting biodiversity around the factory.

NUI Galway has joined a multidisciplinary team of experts across Ireland and the UK to devise new ways of supporting families to have smoke-free homes.