Flagship Event for Ireland’s Transition Year Students
Over 3,000 secondary students and teachers from all over the country attended last year’s HealthFest event in the RDS in Dublin. Organised by the National Dairy Council and safefood, the free event has become one of the most highly anticipated events for transition year students. This year’s event is being held on Thursday 26th April […]
Free GP care for USI students with VideoDoc
374,000 USI student members to have access to free online GP consultations VideoDoc, the Irish leading digital healthcare provider, is announcing their 7 day a week online GP service will be provided free of charge to all 374,000 student members of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). The service will be available free […]
LIT Open Day To Attract Thousands Of Students
Second level students attending this year’s Open Days at Limerick Institute of Technology will be among the first to be educated at the institute’s planned engineering-focussed campus at Coonagh. The Open Days, which take place on Thursday and Friday, October 19 and 20, will allow potential students the opportunity to see first hand all that Ireland’s fastest growing third […]
Fears for progress on two Educate Together Schools in Tipperary
Tipperary is one of five counties that currently have no provision of Educate Together national schools. Hopes that this situation would be rectified in the near future were today threatened on foot of a recent decision in Killarney where the Diocese of Kerry has agreed to transfer patronage of a national school directly to the […]
Students warned not to let hay fever affect their exam performance
Asthma Society launches free pollen tracker & hay fever tips Hay fever is very common, affecting about one in five people Up to 94% of hay fever patients report that their symptoms have an impact on work/school performance[1] If you have asthma, hay fever can make your asthma symptoms worse Grass pollen is the most […]
New start-up SwitchingRooms.ie provides students with rent-free accommodation
www.switchingrooms.ie is a new online start-up that provides a solution to the housing shortage and escalating rents third level students face. Switching Rooms provides a platform for students to advertise the room they are leaving behind, on its database, search for a suitable match in the required destination and do a direct swap thus eliminating the crippling […]
Young Travel Writers Competition Opens to Students Across Ireland
A writing competition aimed at discovering Ireland’s best young travel writers has been announced by the organiser’s of the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, which is set to take place in the heritage town of Lismore in county Waterford this June. Young writers are now invited to write an 800-word short story about their […]
Farmers join Environmentalists To Back Bill To Ban Fracking
As an Oireachtas Committee began hearings on a draft law to ban fracking, today the IFA is joining local groups, environmentalists, water specialists and student campaigners to call for the Bill to be passed without delay. Hildegarde Naughton TD, the Chair of Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action, received a petition from the groups, signed by […]
Calling Tipperary Students To Submit Entries For Dancing With The Stars
Actress and RTÉ Dancing With The Stars hopeful Aoibhín Garrihy, is set to bring a splash of sequins and some newly learned Samba skills to the 2017 Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards. The former Fair City star joins this year’s expert judging panel alongside actress and author Amy Huberman and is encouraging students and […]
Tipp Student Brian Melbourne Wins Tralee IT Student of the Year Award
Almost 1,000 students graduated recently at the IT Tralee Graduation Ceremonies at the Brandon Hotel, Tralee. During the ceremonies, four graduates of the BSc Agricultural Science and BSc Agricultural Engineering courses were presented with Outstanding Student of Year awards from Dairymaster. These awards were presented by Dr. John Daly, Research & Innovation Manager at Dairymaster. […]
