A High Court action by four women lecturers at National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) alleging gender discrimination in a competition for promotion has been resolved, a judge was told today.

Padraig Lenihan lectures in history at the National University of Ireland Galway, and will be one of the contributors to the special Talking History show live from Galway on Sunday at 7pm on Newstalk. Before his academic career, Lenihan was in the army where he attained the rank of captain.

NUI Galway 1-9 - UCC 0-7: Fourteen-man NUIG stunned UCC to advance to the semi-finals of the Sigerson Cup.

Irish courts are not fully applying consumer and human rights laws that could prevent unfair evictions.

UCC 1-12 Garda College 2-7... UCC advanced to a Sigerson Cup quarter-final with NUIG next week thanks to a rescue job led by two Kerry men, Sean O’Shea and Killian Spillane.

Falls caused by one of the most severe symptoms of Parkinson’s disease could be reduced with a device being developed at NUI Galway.

People with OCD are being urged to take part in a new online study.

National University of Ireland Galway has reached a settlement with one of five female academics who have been pursuing gender discrimination cases over a promotions process in 2009.

Young people’s ambivalence towards what constitutes sexual consent when alcohol is involved is captured in new research which shows that while the majority of college students (86%) agree that alcohol impacts on the ability to give consent, more than a third (37%) feel that a woman can still give consent after drinking heavily.

Traveller children and children who have English as their second language are less likely to be “school ready”, according to new research which also argues that more supports are needed to help better prepare children for the start of primary education.

Researchers in Galway University are calling on parents to tell them what it is like to raise a child with a disability.

Irish patients with blood cancer are the first worldwide to take part in a new drug trial to develop more effective treatment for multiple myeloma, a potentially fatal condition.

Rain rarely bothers student revellers in Galway on an average week — let alone on Rag week when it’s traditional for them to let loose.

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See a superb performance by CIT goalkeeper Patrick Collins against NUIG in the Fitzgibbon Cup last night in Cork. 

University of Limerick 2-21, NUI Galway 2-12: The hurlers of UL booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Fitzgibbon Cup with this second comprehensive victory on home turf.

An NUI Galway and Teagasc ‘Strategic Research and Training Alliance on Carbon-Neutral Agriculture’ will target cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from milk and meat production.

A leading US academic is to address aspiring entrepreneurs in NUI Galway as part of a week-long series of events at the newly established Atlantic Centre for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development.

Gardaí are investigating after a teenager was left critically ill after falling from a balcony in Galway city last night.

JK Rowling’s children’s charity is teaming up with NUI Galway to help millions of children unnecessarily placed in orphanages worldwide reunite with their families.

Ward Solutions has landed a €170,000 contract to implement IT security system upgrades across the National University of Ireland, Galway’s (NUIG) campus and educate staff on the dangers of cyber attacks.

NUIG president Jim Browne tells Education Correspondent Niall Murray his institution is keen to rectify gender imbalance in senior positions as part of its assault on global rankings.

NUI Galway Student's Union is now mandated to support the legalisation of cannabis.

Jason Abbott’s free-kick winner four minutes from the end of yesterday’s Collingwood Cup semi-final sealed University College Cork a place in today’s decider against Trinity College.

Katie O’Halloran, 22, was born with femur fibula ulna syndrome, which left her without arms and with a short, deformed right leg.