Trinity student Brian O’Flynn says the scholarships programme is from a bygone era and no longer fit for purpose

Glenstal Abbey 18 - CBC Cork 17: The decades of heartbreak are over for Glenstal Abbey. Yesterday the Limerick side were crowned Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup champions with a sensational one point victory over Christian Brothers College Cork at Musgrave Park.

More college students are choosing Ireland as a study destination because of Brexit.

A young man with a violent history threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend an hour after being released on bail on another charge of threatening to kill her.

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin are asking the public to help name a Royal VIP after installing a beehive that will house thousands of honeybees on campus.

United States vice president Joe Biden has said Ireland remains a “cornerstone” of US international policy, following the British exit from the EU.

On a day when his The Gurkha proved an impressive winner of the French 2,000 Guineas in Deauville, Aidan O’Brien also took the training honours at Navan where long odds-on favourite Bondi Beach produced an unconvincing display to justify 1/9 favouritism in the Group 3 Coolmore Vintage Crop Stakes.

Placed six times in stakes company over the last two season, the Jim Bolger-trained Altesse deservedly earned winning black type when getting the better of Ballybacka Queen by a half-length in the listed Noblesse Stakes, feature on Student Day in Leopardstown yesterday.

Go Kart can secure a third career victory by taking the Irishinjuredjockeys.com Race on tonight’s eight-race programme at Dundalk.

Trainer Patrick Prendergast introduced a very promising filly, Queen Blossom, to make a winning debut in the median auction maiden on yesterday’s seven-race card at Cork.

John Cullen recorded his first success as a full-time trainer when landing yesterday’s feature race, the €36,000-to-the-winner Ladbrokes Island Handicap Hurdle with the game Misty Lady.

Robbie Downey, chasing 2013 champion Connor King in the race for the apprentice title, rode out his 5lb. claim when partnering Go Kart to a convincing win in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Maiden at Down Royal yesterday.

The median auction maiden which opens this afternoon’s card at Bellewstown looks a real cracker, with a number of potentially smart youngsters in the field, but Ample Sufficiency could prove a cut above his rivals if building on the promise of his Leopardstown debut.

University of Limerick and Trinity College Dublin have become the first Irish colleges to receive recognition from an international organisation for their efforts to increase academic gender equality.

I’ll Be Your Clown swooped late under a determined Chris Hayes to deny favourite Unsinkable in the €100,000 Irish Stallion Farms Nasrullah Handicap in Navan last night.

Theos Well will be strongly fancied to open his account over hurdles in the Great Value Social Packages Maiden Hurdle in Cork tonight.

The Charles Byrnes-trained Arnaud turned over odds-on favourite The Game Changer, also in the colours of Gigginstown House Stud, in the featured Stena Line Horizon Chase in Wexford last night.

Greyscape will be strongly fancied to get off the mark at his third attempt in today’s opener in Cork, the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Auction Maiden.

Katie T, winner of the Boylesports Hurdle at Leopardstown back in January, oozed class as she brushed aside six rivals in the Follow Limerickraces On Twitter Handicap on Student Race Day in Limerick yesterday, providing Chris Hayes with the highlight of a superb 966/1 four-timer.

The Irishman was the first person to prove the dangers of greenhouse gases and the need for hygiene in medicine. As his life’s letters are published, Ailin Quinlan learns that Tyndall was a fearless ambassador for science

The country’s top university plans to rely on more funding from foreign and online students to reduce its reliance on public funding, a part of its €600m five-year strategy.

Apparently struggling before the third last and under pressure after the next, Taglietelle came through strongly to collar front-running, odds-on favourite Orgilgo Bay at the final flight in the Follow Us On Twitter And Facebook Rated Hurdle, before forging clear to slam Art Of Payroll by five and a half lengths at Punchestown yesterday.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has told college bosses they will not be allowed keep the €250 extra that most students must pay next year — and says the Higher Education Authority should not be seeking such "massive increases" for the sector.

A big jump for NUI Galway brings a ray of light to an otherwise worrying performance by Irish colleges in the latest major world university league table.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan says extra funding can only come at a price, writes Niall Murray

More structural changes in the higher education system are needed as well as decisions on who funds it, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has told university leaders.

Pat Smullen reached 100 winners in a season for the first time with a double at Gowran Park highlighted by the victory of Brooch in the feature Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Fillies Stakes.

The John Oxx-trained Rayna and in-form apprentice Gary Halpin continued on their winning ways when landing the €25,000 Connacht Oaks in Sligo last night.

Patrick Prendergast’s Manalapan is fancied to have the legs on Aidan O’Brien’s El Salvador in the mile and five Her Majesty’s Plate at Down Royal tonight.

Aidan O’Brien’s Palace arrived late and fast to land the Listed Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Cairn Rouge Stakes at Killarney last night.

Aidan O’Brien and his son, Joseph, warmed up for Australia in the Irish Derby at the Curragh tomorrow when combining to land the 12 furlongs plus Maiden at Tipperary last night with Granddukeoftuscany.

War Envoy bids to further enhance his reputation in the Alfred Nobel Rochestown Stakes on a high-class card at Naas today.

Dermot Weld’s Vintage Nouveau, fourth on her debut at Dundalk, cruised to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Clonmel last night.

In-form trainer Dermot Weld described Tested as "a group-class filly" after the daughter of Selkirk justified 4/11 favouritism in the Ladies Day June 21st Fillies Race in Gowran Park yesterday.

Trinity College Dublin is planning to create 160 companies in the next three years as part of its new plan for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Peter Fahey’s Owega Star produced a fine exhibition of jumping to land the Kevin McManus Beginners Chase at Listowel yesterday.

Dublin’s “informal poet laureate” Paula Meehan has been named Ireland Professor of Poetry.

Cuts to both staff and funding have been blamed for further falls by most Irish universities in the latest world rankings.

The funeral mass for Seamus Heaney will take place on Monday at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook, south Dublin followed by burial in his birthplace of Bellaghy, Co Derry.

Successful over course and distance last month, the Tony Martin-trained Ted Veale bounced back from his Galway Hurdle disappointment when justifying odds-on favouritism in last night’s finale in Bellewstown, the irishmirror.ie Amateur Race.