It’s CSI: Limerick as series boosts course

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.

Budding sleuths are queuing up to get into LIT’s forensic science faculty, which is the only one of its kind in the country.

Dr Willie Fitzgerald, who heads the course, said that the TV series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation helps boost the demand for places.