Paul Azinger has welcomed reports Davis Love will captain the US Ryder Cup team for the second time at Hazeltine in 2016. 

Offaly 1-17 Maynooth University 0-03: Offaly rounded off their O’Byrne Cup campaign in style at O’Connor Park yesterday, winning by 17 points — their largest winning margin since beating Kilkenny in the 2010 O’Byrne Cup.

Waterford pair Gary Hurley, and Robin Dawson take on an 84-man field alongside some of the top college golfers in America.

Maurice Kelly will be aiming to complete a magnificent quick-fire double when he competes at the British Seniors Amateur Championship, which gets underway at Ganton, Yorkshire, this morning.

Dublin Institute of Technology has joined two other Irish colleges in a ranking of the world’s top young universities.

The GAA’s Higher Education Committee have been forced to put in place stand-by venues for three of the Sigerson Cup quarter-finals scheduled for today.

Christmas had to come a little early for Gary Hurley this week as the National University of Ireland, Maynooth golfer got his yuletide celebrations done in good time for a dash across the Atlantic and a prestigious date with some of the amateur game’s leading lights.

More students are coming forward for mental health help in college, but men are less likely to do so until things reach crisis stage, analysis of a support service at NUI Maynooth has found.

The Leaving Certificate exams seem a long way off right now but the business of choosing which colleges and universities to apply for is a necessarily important process and not least for golfers with ambitions of becoming a touring professional.

A university president has warned education policy needs to focus on producing well-rounded and flexible graduates rather than those that specifically meet the short-term needs of a troubled economy.

The potential of a brain training system developed at an Irish university could extend beyond schools and children into the world of computers and engineering.

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Universities see world rankings as means to attract paying students, writes education correspondent Niall Murray.

Queens University, Belfast made history on Saturday when winning their first Intervarsities O’Connor Cup at Waterford IT with victory over DCU (4-10 to 1-9).

UCC’s Ian O’Rourke smashed the men’s course record at Strandhill Golf Club with a dazzling eight-under-par 62 to coast to victory in the second event in the Intervarsity Series.

Results, scores and scorers from today's Ulster Bank League ties

More students are getting better degrees across the universities because of lowering academic standards rather than improved ability, according to an academic study.

NUI Maynooth struck a blow for Irish college golf yesterday as their Paddy Harrington scholars lifted the coveted Barton Shield on the second day of the All-Ireland Cups and Shields finals at Kinsale Golf Club.

Today’s Barton Shield final at Kinsale Golf Club promises to be a classic battle between youth and experience as the young guns of NUI Maynooth vie with Banbridge for an All-Ireland title at the Chartis-sponsored Cups & Shields National Finals.

The 2012 cups and shields get off to flying start at Kinsale Golf Club today with the Barton Shield semi-finals.

Ireland’s three youngest universities are among the world’s 100 best colleges that are less than 50 years old, says a new ranking.

UCC and Cork IT will face off in an all-Cork centenary Fitzgibbon Cup final at the Mardyke tomorrow afternoon (throw-in 3pm) after semi-final wins over Limerick sides UL and LIT respectively.

NUI Maynooth held off a late challenge from 14-man UCD to forge a deserved victory in last night’sfloodlit Sigerson Cup quarter-final.

A university president has warned that any more delays in solving the funding crisis in higher education will damage thousands of students.

The news that TDs have been paid another staggering amount in expenses — about €6m — should come as no surprise to an electorate that has become wearyingly accustomed to paying other people’s bills.

NUI, Maynooth travelled north to Belfast and came away with a deserved win with a last minute point in this Sigerson Cup clash at the Dub.

VATICAN chiefs have ordered trainee priests at Ireland’s national seminary at Maynooth to be physically separated from the university’s 8,000 lay students.

THE search is on again to find Ireland’s best young scientist.

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

AN ATTACKING masterclass by Tyrone full-forward Matthew Donnelly underpinned UUJ’s triumph over NUI Maynooth in yesterday’s first Sigerson Cup semi-final in Belfield.

FORMER Galway All-Ireland winner John Divilly’s run of success with NUI Maynooth continued at Belfield yesterday afternoon as he guided the Kildare college to their second successive Sigerson Cup semi-final.

A COLLEGE boss has called for third level institutions to change the entry points system which is causing huge stress to students.

IRISH universities will be supported in their efforts to produce spin-out high potential companies by a new national professional body.

COLLEGE hopefuls have turned towards general arts degrees and the science and engineering courses with the lure of good careers, according to the first statistics on this year’s record 71,843 applications.

FREE Education for Everyone, with the inapt acronym FEE, organised up to 1,000 student signatures in protest against the appointment of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a visiting professor at NUI Maynooth (NUIM). They called on the college authorities to suspend the appointment, at least until after the publication of the Mahon tribunal report.

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

THIRD-LEVEL bosses are insisting they will not allow students to lose out because of a Government order to cut their wage bills by 3% for the next year.

PENALTY shoot-out secures Irish soccer victory! No, it’s not an archive headline after Packie Bonner’s famous save against Romania in Genoa, but rather the story of an Irish team whose robots did the business to become the world’s best in China last week.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT have been drawn against Galway IT in the first round of the Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup.