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'Plugging debt is not enough for university sector growth': UL president

PLANS to invest €5.2 billion in higher education over the next nine years will not allow the higher education sector to grow in pace with the expected rise in our student population, the president of the University of Limerick has warned. The ...

24 Feb 2018 at 12:00

Education

University of Limerick president acknowledges 'seriousness' of issues raised in report

UNIVERSITY of Limerick president Professor Des Fitzgerald has acknowledged that the university “fell short” in how “treated some of its people in the past”. The new president was responding to the publishing today of a report which saw its ...

08 Nov 2017 at 17:18

Education

Being different is part of the University of Limerick identity and DNA

Over the last 50 years, University of Limerick has set itself apart to do things differently. We were once told that Limerick could not have a university, but a determined cohort of visionaries rallied so that their voices would be heard. ...

10 Nov 2019 at 13:45

Education

New broom at University of Limerick planning to sweep clean

THE DAY before Dr Des Fitzgerald took his seat in the University of Limerick’s Plassey House he rang Mr Justice John Murray, the former Supreme Court judge who is chancellor of UL’s Governing Authority. Mr Murray had been resistant to ...

05 Jun 2017 at 15:16

Education

Donations to charity made as part of new University of Limerick tradition

TWENTY local charities have received donations from the University of Limerick as part of a new Christmas tradition at the university. UL President Dr Des Fitzgerald invited staff and students to nominate local charities to receive a ...

23 Dec 2017 at 11:00

Local News

Warm welcome for UL plan as more details of Limerick city campus revealed

THERE has been universal approval to the news the vacant Dunnes Stores site on Sarsfield Street is to be developed into a state-of-the art, multi-storey campus by the University of Limerick. It will says the univesity, become the ...

11 Apr 2019 at 19:00

Local News

EXCLUSIVE: University of Limerick offered to accommodate RTE Lyric FM on-campus

THE PRESIDENT of UL wrote to RTE’s director general, offering to “help sustain” Lyric FM and accommodate the station on campus, in late September, the Leader can exclusively reveal. Last week, RTE revealed that it will be ...

11 Nov 2019 at 08:00

Pictures & Videos

#WATCH: Scores of Limerick people gather to worship 'miracle' statue

IT WAS the third ever Friday the 13th to land on the month of Halloween this millennium. Despite the promise of an unusual spell of warm weather, Limerick city had been darkened by a heavy gloom of rainfall on this ...

15 Oct 2017 at 11:11

Education

Whistleblowers anxiously await release of University of Limerick report

THE LONG-AWAITED report into a series of allegations of misconduct at the University of Limerick is now in the hands of the Higher Education Authority and the Department of Education and Science. Dr Graham Love, ...

27 Oct 2017 at 06:00

Education

UL president emails staff over concerns: 'We want to stop discrimination'

THE PRESIDENT of University of Limerick has this week issued an email to all staff, stating that UL will challenge “any discriminatory incidents on campus by UL staff or by UL students”. This comes after a ...

15 Dec 2017 at 11:00

Breaking News

Des Fitzgerald to step down as President of the University of Limerick

The President of the University of Limerick, Dr Des Fitzgerald, has announced his intention to step down as President. Staff, students and other stakeholders were informed of the decision by email this ...

26 May 2020 at 16:09

Local News

WATCH: University of Limerick President to engage with whistleblowers following review

THE President of the University of Limerick says he will deal “sympathetically” with two whistleblowers who have been suspended for more than two years following the conclusion of an independent ...

22 Jun 2017 at 16:53

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