The JP McManus Benevolent Fund yesterday announced a €4m donation to Limerick Institute of Technology to develop a community engagement facility on campus.

A leading Irish academic has warned GAA chiefs against switching prestigious third-level championship competitions to a pre-Christmas slot.

A US astronaut has divulged a litle known secret about space travel to a Limerick schoolboy.

Cash-strapped third-level students are being offered hot meals for €3 in a bid to put healthy and affordable eating at the top of their menu.

If we saw a star of the future in action at Limerick yesterday then it was surely the Tony Martin-trained Noble Emperor in the INH Stallion Owners' EBF Maiden Hurdle.

Horticultural research being carried out at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) is headed for outer space.

The country’s third-level institutions have been told to make cuts by the end of the year or risk having Education Minister Ruairi Quinn do it for them.

Limerick Institute of Technology yesterday unveiled a €200m plan for expansion over the next 18 years.

Three thousand jobs are to be created through the expansion of Limerick Institute of Technology as part of a €200m redevelopment.

A company that designed the world’s first automated recycling technology for LCD flat screens has won €50,000 in seed capital and the top prize at Limerick Institute of Technology’s Business Awards.

Limerick Institute of Technology has unveiled two major funding initiatives to help companies get off the ground.

New directions for physical planning of the built environment post-Mahon Report, along with the future of the country’s ghost and unfinished estates, will come under a planners’ spotlight at month’s end.

The proposed establishment of a technological university by three colleges in Cork, Kerry and Limerick has drawn mixed reactions.

A wider course choice and greater international recognition could be among the results of the creation of a Munster Technological University (MTU).

THIRD level colleges need to do more to support entrepreneurship in this country, a leading educationalist said yesterday.

LIMERICK Institute of Technology (LIT) is finalising plans for the biggest ever business exhibition and seminar to be held outside of Dublin.

THE importance of sport to the people of Limerick is already well documented, but the commercial benefits are also huge.

EUROPE’S first third-level centre for franchise development is to be established at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT).

THE three main business organisations in the mid-west region, Limerick Chamber, IBEC, and the American Chamber of Commerce, yesterday called for an extension of the boundary of Limerick city.

LIMERICK Institute of Technology’s new €9 million school of art and design points to a new era of creativity for its 600 students, the Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe said yesterday.

AS jobless numbers in the mid-west soared past 30,000 last month, an information day has been organised for the benefit of those who are out of work.

A TV crime series is helping drive up student numbers at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) — and enabling the college buck the trend of declining demand for science courses.

THIRTEEN men living on two Limerick halting sites have made a major educational breakthrough for Travellers at Limerick Institute of Technology.

A NEW link between Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) and secondary schools under the control of the Limerick City Vocational Education Committee (VEC) was announced yesterday.

SMALL businesses in the mid-west region are missing out on huge opportunities by failing to invest in research and development (R&D), manufacturing and marketing, a leading academic from Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) said over the weekend.