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Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD this week officially launched the Donegal Medical Academy, an NUI Galway partnership with Saolta University Health Care Group and Letterkenny University Hospital for the training of doctors. The Academy is housed in a purpose-designed facility located on the grounds of Letterkenny University Hospital.

Fred Johnston, the Belfast-born, Galway based, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, has been nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize by the literary magazine, The Luxembourg Review.

NUI Galway students are learning about their rights as workers this week as part of a three day campaign being run at the university.

Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD has just launched NUI Galway’s 1916 Programme of Events, ‘A Nation Rising: Commemorating 1916 and Beyond’, as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme.

During the past few weeks I have tried to give some of the formative influences on the life of the writer Eilís Dillon as she grew up in Galway. The impact of her parents’ (Professor Tom Dillon and Geraldine Plunkett) commitment to the War of Independence, and her nightly fears of sudden raids on their home by the Black and Tans was a nightmare that stayed with her all her life. 

NUI Galway will hold its second spring open day for students considering applying or those who have already applied to the university, and for their parents or guardians. The event will be held on Saturday April 24, from 10am to 3pm at the NUI Galway Campus. The inaugural spring open day took place last year and over 3,000 students and their parents registered on the day.

The history of student activism is heroic, forceful, naive, idealistic, and often bloody.