An Irishman who wants to live on Mars and a doctor who can listen to the brains of unborn babies are among the speakers at a TED talk in UCC.

The draws for the 2012 Higher Education GAA Championships, including the prestigious Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cups, were made this afternoon in Croke Park.

Enterprise Ireland has launched a €60,000 entrepreneurial contest for students as part of the 30th ‘Think outside the Box Awards’ competition.

GAA president Christy Cooney has committed Croke Park for the staging of the 2011 Ulster Bank GAA Sigerson Cup final.

FIRST-YEAR students will be ineligible to play in the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup competitions this season. The announcement follows a ruling passed at Saturday’s AGM of the Higher Education GAA authority at Trinity College in Dublin.

Students at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) will today stage a picket over the introduction of clamping in their campus car park.

JOANNA GARDINER has been appointed chairperson of the governing body of Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) for five years.