Colleges are in for a cash windfall worth €14.25m.

Limerick IT and Athlone IT are forming a consortium to develop a new Technological University.

The construction of 10 buildings in third-level colleges around the country ran to €350m - some €67m over budget.

The impressive 2018 winners will face the top-three teams in the all-time roll of honour.

A €200m building spend at 11 institutes of technology will create extra spaces for around 8,000 students in state-of-the-art facilities for everything from catering to computer science.

Diarmuid O’Connor only turned 21 last week but the 2015 Young Footballer of the Year is adamant Mayo’s footballers don’t feel extra pressure this season to prove they were right to oust the previous management.

He ended the season with his first piece of significant silverware as a Tipperary hurler but John O’Dwyer has still labelled the 2015 campaign as a considerable let down.

Reducing the risk of injury to young footballers and hurlers due to training overload, skeletal immaturity, and mismatched age groups is the focus of a new national programme designed to tackle the growing epidemic of sports injuries among adolescents.

After exiting the hurling championship with a 20-point reversal, Offaly manager Brian Whelahan insisted he wants to remain in charge for another year, but conceded it will be down to the Offaly County Board to make that call.

UL manager DJ Collins paid tribute to his squad’s strength in depth as they made it back-to-back titles in the Irish Examiner O’Connor Cup at Cork IT on Saturday.

UL were in devastating form as they beat DCU by 3-16 to 0-9 to claim the Irish Examiner O’Connor Cup for the second year in a row at Cork IT yesterday.

Athletics: The national indoor championships take place in Athlone this weekend with two headline acts having travelled very different paths to star in the midlands and then, hopefully, on the European stage next month.

A review of equality policies in third-level colleges is being considered by the Higher Education Authority amid ongoing controversy over a lack of promotion for female academics.

UCD 0-15 Athlone IT 0-7

Athlone IT 3-10 Trinity College Dublin 0-10

Mark English has confirmed that Nic Bideau will be his new coach as well as his agent next season.

And to the death they will go.

Galway football has been dealt a massive blow with news that defender Colin Forde will miss their entire 2014 campaign after emigrating to England.

UCD 0-17 Athlone IT 2-7

The semi-final pairings for the Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup were confirmed today, where Kildare, UCD, Meath and DCU progressed to the last four.

Leinster and Ireland flanker Seán O’Brien has joined Anthony Rainbow’s Carlow backroom team.

Athlone IT 1-15 Carlow 0-13

Dublin, DCU, Kildare, Athlone IT, Wicklow, Meath, Laois and UCD claimed wins in the Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup tonight.

Kildare 4-24 Athlone IT 0-12

All-Ireland champions Dublin and reigning O'Byrne Cup champions Kildare claimed first round wins in the Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup today, while Longford, Wexford, Offaly, Meath and Wicklow were also victorious this afternoon.

A class of audiology students, who were left in 'academic limbo' after their course was axed, will return to their studies next month.

The decision to cancel the country’s first undergraduate course in audiology has been described as a “fiasco”, the High Court has heard.

The High Court has heard how Athlone IT was told not to proceed with a new course in audiology that has been scrapped after just one year.

The High Court is hearing a legal challenge taken by two students from Athlone Institute of Technology over the cancellation of their course.

Having wiggled and waggled his way to winning a world championship, the country’s latest antidote to austerity blues arrived home last night to the kind of welcome only a hero deserves.

“Know your enemy” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War

DIT and UCC booked their places in tomorrow's Sigerson Cup Final at 3pm in Athlone IT following semi-final wins over DCU and AIT respectively this afternoon.

There have been plenty of footballers who have won All Star awards during their time in third-level education, but it is rare to have somebody enrolling in an undergraduate course while being a reigning award winner.

Galway manager Anthony Cunningham was celebrating a doubly joyous weekend after his home club St Thomas’s and current club St Brigid’s qualified for the All-Ireland senior hurling and football finals on March 17.

Sigerson Cup quarter-final: Athlone IT 0-11 CIT 1-4

Diarmuid Connolly has been ruled out of Dublin's next Allianz Football League fixture against Mayo at Croke Park on Saturday, March 2.

Athlone IT’s indoor track can make Irish athletics stand out from the crowd, writes Feidhlim Kelly

Dublin made it two wins out of two in the Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup tonight as they saw off the challenge of DCU at Parnell Park.

Defender Kieran Gavin has been confirmed as Westmeath senior football captain for the 2013 campaign.

Up to 150 struggling students at Athlone Institute of Technology have been forced to accept free food boxes because they could not afford to feed themselves.