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Irish Examiner
19-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
New pharmacy degree opens in bid to double sector's graduate numbers
Applications for a new pharmacy degree at University of Galway have now opened, under a plan to double the number of graduates in the sector. Higher Education Minister James Lawless has launched the new pharmacy programme that will provide 75 new student places per year when fully up and running, with 45 places available for the first intake this September. The new degree is part of a major expansion of healthcare education announced under Budget 2025. It includes new pharmacy programmes at three universities: University of Galway, which will commence in 2025, and Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and South East Technological University (SETU), which will commence in 2026. This will double the number of pharmacy training programmes in Ireland from three to six and, at full capacity, will provide over 150 additional pharmacy graduates per year. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland is also commencing a new bachelor of dental surgery course in September 2025 under the same initiative. Other courses due to commence in 2026 include a direct-entry medicine programme in the University of Limerick. "We are not only enhancing regional access to pharmacy education but also ensuring that communities across Ireland will benefit from a new generation of highly-trained, innovative, and patient-centred pharmacists," Mr Lawless said. James Lawless said 'communities across Ireland will benefit from a new generation of highly-trained, innovative, and patient-centred pharmacists'. Picture: Leah Farrell/ Meanwhile, new research reveals that science, technology, engineering, and maths (Stem) skills are even more critical to Ireland amid global trade instability. Almost three quarters of Irish adults questioned as part of the Interaction Research survey believe that Stem is core to the economy, amid international trade-war threats, with 80% agreeing that the Government should do more to address the high drop-out rates of Stem students in third-level courses. Newly-appointed chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Erin McGreehan said: "As global competition intensifies, we must ensure that students are not only encouraged to pursue Stem pathways but are fully supported to complete their studies and transition into the workforce. "The Government is committed to working with education providers and industry to reduce dropout rates, strengthen progression routes, and secure the Stem talent Ireland needs to thrive in an increasingly complex global economy.' Separate research, published by Engineers Ireland earlier this year, shows that over a third of engineering employers have reported taking six to 12 months to fill engineering vacancies, while just 9.8% of graduates in Ireland come from engineering disciplines, almost half the global average. Read More Almost 170 more gardaí left than joined force in last four years
Irish Independent
08-05-2025
- Science
- Irish Independent
Sligo student's climate award for clean water project
Sligo Champion A student from Ursuline College in Sligo has taken home the prestigious EirGrid Cleaner Climate Award following their success at the SciFest@College 2025 regional competition at Atlantic Technological University, Sligo recently. Over 150 students from schools across Sligo and neighbouring counties came together with their second-level student peers and teachers to compete in the STEM fair exhibiting projects covering a broad range of topics and disciplines from health and physics to renewable energy and AI.
Irish Independent
29-04-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
Sligo Olympian Lauren Cadden to receive an ATU Alumni Award
Atlantic Technological University (ATU) has announced the recipients of its inaugural Alumni Awards, celebrating graduates who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, innovation, and positive impact in their professions and communities. Amongst the nominees are Sligo athlete, Lauren Cadden. The awards are an opportunity for the university to honour alumni whose exceptional skills, leadership, and impact have inspired students, staff, and wider community. Alumni Awards are presented to alumni who have made outstanding contributions in the following areas aligned to its faculties: Business Design, Education & Humanities Engineering & Computing Science & Health Seven graduates will be recognised at the university's Spring Conferring Ceremonies, taking place this week across ATU campuses in Donegal, Sligo and Galway. The 2025 ATU Alumni Award recipients are: Pat McArt, Journalist, Author, Former Editor, Derry Journal – Alumni Award in Design, Education & Humanities Breege Conroy Walsh, Founder & Managing Director, BWC MedTech Consulting and Former VP of Global Quality Engineering and Services at Medtronic Inc. – Alumni Award in Science & Health Dr Shane Loughlin, Founder and President, ESE Academy – Alumni Award in Engineering & Computing Enda Mc Guane, Head of Asset Management, Land Development Agency – Alumni Award in Business Evelyn O'Toole, Founder & CEO, Complete Laboratory Solutions (CLS) – Alumni Award in Science & HealthLauren Cadden, Record-breaking Irish Sprinter and Paris 2024 Olympian – President's Alumni Award Lisa Lynch, Senior Manager R&D, Boston Scientific - Alumni Award in Science & Health Dr Orla Flynn, President of ATU, said, 'These outstanding alumni represent the very best of Atlantic Technological University. Their achievements are a source of immense pride for our university community, and they inspire our current students to dream bigger and reach higher. 'These are our very first Alumni Awards, and we look forward to celebrating many more incredible graduates in the years to come.' The Alumni Awards will be presented to the recipients during ATU's Spring Conferring Ceremonies, held across the university's campuses on the 29 April (Letterkenny), 30 April (Sligo). and 01 May (Galway City). These events will bring together the ATU community, along with families and friends, to celebrate both the graduating students and the outstanding achievements of the alumni awardees.
Irish Times
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
Supreme Court sits in Letterkenny for first time in north west
The Supreme Court is sitting today Monday in Letterkenny Courthouse, Donegal, marking the first ever sitting of the court in the north west. Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell said the court was pleased to be sitting in Letterkenny, saying that 'reflects the fact that the court hears cases of importance to everyone in the State. 'It is therefore appropriate that the court should occasionally sit in locations around Ireland.' The sitting marks the fifth time the court has sat outside Dublin. It first sat outside the capital 10 years ago when it heard cases in Cork in 2015. It has since sat in Limerick in 2018, Galway in 2019 and Waterford in 2020. READ MORE The non-Dublin sittings were interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The five judge court is hearing an appeal by a Pakistan man whose permanent residency was revoked on the basis of the Minister for Justice's view that his residency was achieved on foot of a 'marriage of convenience'. The court agreed to hear the appeal on the basis it concerns an issue of public importance in relation to the requirement for a proportionality assessment in a decision to revoke permanent residency. The Chief Justice said, while in Letterkenny, the court looked forward to engaging with members of the local practising professions. The judges will also conduct seminars with students at Atlantic Technological University and will visit two local secondary schools, Mulroy College and Finn Valley College, where they will undertake an in-person version of 'Comhrá'; a popular outreach programme which involves question and answer sessions between secondary schools and the judges, usually online. The Citizens Information Service is hosting an event, which coincides with its 50th anniversary, involving about 30 Donegal-based civil society organisations and community groups where the judges will learn from the representatives of those organisations about their work.
