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Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris has officially opened a brand new €4 million apprenticeship facility at the Technological University of the Shannon’s (TUS) campus in Athlone.

After Catholic Emancipation where for the first time Catholics won the right to be elected and to sit in the House Of Commons, the English government, led by an enlightened Robert Peel, believed it would be worth extending emancipation to third level education.

An initiative to allow third level part-time flexible students, currently learning online through the Faculty of Continuing, Professional, Online and Distance Learning, to complete college courses in their local remote working hub, has been launched on the TUS Athlone campus.

Academics at Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Athlone Campus, and Ulster University, Belfast, have launched a policy brief that sets out five key recommendations for how integration might proceed in Gaelic games on the island of Ireland.

Three Galway astro-photographers have been chosen for the next stage of the prestigious ‘Reach for the Stars’ astrophotography competition.

Athenry native Gerard Flaherty has become the first Irish person to lead the International Society of Travel Medicine.

University of Galway researchers have developed a modular approach to vaccine synthesis, potentially enabling the groundbreaking production of a new cancer vaccine.

University of Galway researchers have developed a modular approach to vaccine synthesis, potentially enabling the groundbreaking production of a new cancer vaccine.

University of Galway has announced the establishment of Ireland’s first Institute for Clinical Trials — a development that will transform the clinical research landscape by creating an environment where scientific advances are translated into improved care for patients.

On this day 70 years ago, June 1 1953, Scoil Íde opened for the first time. In 1952, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary purchased Allen’s Hotel on Dalysfort Road which had been run by John and Angela Allen. It had at one time been known as Daly’s Fort House, a high-class hotel run by a Mrs Galbraith. She sold it to a Mr Miller of Persse’s Distillers who used it as a private house and he sold it on to the Allens. Many will remember it as the place where Bruce Woodcock, the English Heavyweight champion, trained for his famous fight with Máirtín Thornton.