WIT Try events differ from college open days as it’s all about giving students a real-life sense of what it’s like to actually study on the course.

Cork campaigner Joanne O’Riordan is among 10 young people to win awards for their outstanding achievements in categories such as personal and cultural achievement, contribution to children, environmental leadership, and medical innovation.

Hardy prison officers will have traversed some 700km for charity when they dismount at Mizen Head tomorrow.

WATERFORD Institute of Technology said yesterday it was very encouraged by the number of budding undergraduates showing a keen interest in science and technology courses at the college — programmes which have been in critical decline nationally over the past decade.