University of Limerick gives its students a life-saving test 

Student Caoimhe Cahill from Ardrahan, Galway, getting a test at the Covid-19 testing centre at the University of Limerick, on Friday. Picture: Brian Arthur 

Towards the end of January, the HSE Department of Public Health Mid-West began to notice an emerging pattern of outbreaks in the housing estates in the environs of the University of Limerick (UL).

Clusters of cases with the same address kept popping up. “What we were seeing was entire houses of students infected, with links to other houses who were also affected,” explains Dr Marie Casey.