Journalists Alan Owens and Andrew Carey have been appointed as communications officers at University of Limerick.

Education Minister Joe McHugh came under fire this week after he suggested that students could pursue “regional options” as pathways to their chosen career if the expense of university was an issue.

Consistency, a clear mind, and classical music may have helped some of the country’s top students secure their impressive exam results.

Ireland’s wild honey bees are defying the odds, and experts want to know why.

Joe Canning has no problem findings targets.

The scoreboard won’t contain the only numbers that matter to Peter Duggan this month.

The latest moves in the world of business.

The home of the reigning All-Ireland senior hurling champions will be known as the LIT Gaelic Grounds from the outset of this year’s inter-county championships.

The initial fixture three weeks ago didn’t go ahead with UL protesting the coin toss that saw LIT granted home venue for the game.

Shane O’Donnell has rejoined the Clare senior hurling panel following his return from Harvard University last week.

The LIT management were informed late last night they had been awarded the game after controversy had reigned on Wednesday of last week when the two finalists showed up at different venues.

Seán Powter will start his first game for the Cork footballers in almost 14 months this weekend.

Limerick Institute of Technology advanced to the Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-finals after a 4-24 to 0-12 win over Garda College at LIT.

COUGHING and spluttering in this season of dreariness? Before trying over-the-counter mixtures or resorting to antibiotics, try this World Health Organisation-approved remedy — a single teaspoon of honey three times a day, writes Clodagh Finn.

When Great Taste, the world’s most coveted food awards, reached the 2018 grand finale in London last month, there was exciting news for Cork.

Eoghan Cormican previews the Fitzgibbon Cup Group D, Group B and Group C.

A measure of the growth possibilities offered by the video games industry in Ireland was underlined in last week’s major acquisition by Dublin headquartered Keyword Studios of US-based VMC Consulting for $66m (€57m).

An online fundraising page has been set up to raise funds for the medical care of an inspirational dad who created an app to help his daughter who is non-verbal to communicate.

People have been paying tribute to the three people who died during storm Ophelia yesterday.

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.

As Limerick CivicTrust launches its annual series of lectures, chief executive David O’Brien tells Pádraig Hoare about its work forging business and community partnerships.

Brexit, Trumpism, developers, censorship, architecture, and integration are among topics that will be explored during Limerick Civic Trust’s six-week autumn lecture series, beginning this month.

A new €14m engineering- focused campus is to be opened by Limerick Institute of Technology in a year’s time.

A hundred jobs are being created at Limerick Institute of Technology.

Limerick is getting a 400-job Brexit bounce from an international finance company diverting jobs from Britain to Ireland.

Limerick, long a manufacturing hub, is now on the cusp of becoming a powerhouse in the biopharma field. Ivor Downey tells Pádraig Hoare about US giant Regeneron’s swiftly-expanding mission in Raheen

Dozens of more people with disabilities, Travellers, and others from under-represented backgrounds are expected to become teachers every year in a campaign to widen diversity in the profession.

Scrummaging giant Anthony ‘Axel’ Foley yesterday inspired a history-making rugby effort — entering his name in the Guinness Book of Records.

He helped win more than a few against the head when he was playing and now a world record attempt in honour of Munster legend Anthony ‘Axel’ Foley will take place next week when 2,000 people attempt the world’s largest rugby scrum.

Gardaí are hunting three male suspects after a student attending Limerick Institute of Technology was thrown from a car and injured after been held against his will and robbed near the college.

Tony Hehir couldn’t have been happier when overtime ended yesterday and the scoreboard in Inchicore’s Oblate Hall confirmed that his Mary Immaculate College side had claimed the All-Ireland Colleges Ladies Division 2 title.

A Limerick-based company is aiming to target a global market with €500m, reports Trish Dromey.

Five years ago, Mohammed Thabir arrived in Ireland with his parents and four sisters, via Sudan, having fled war-torn Somalia.

More than 230 jobs are to be created through the construction and operation of a €14m engineering training centre of excellence at Limerick Institute of Technology.

A massive 200 people collaborated at Limerick Institute of Technology to pull off one of the biggest mannequin challenges we have ever seen.

Three brothers from Co Clare been awarded Garda Youth Awards after they gallantly defended their home and neighbours' properties from last winter's flooding.

Limerick is poised for another jobs jackpot.

You may have seen it, you may not have, depending on your familiarity with Facebook, the website set up, according to Hollywood, to get back at a girl who dumped a nerd at Harvard.