University College Cork and Maynooth University are the only two Irish colleges to improve their placings in the latest Times Higher Education World University rankings.

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University College Cork has emerged as the country’s top third-level institution in the second release of rankings that aim to give a broad picture of colleges’ strengths and weaknesses.