11 Nominations for UL Students in 2019 Student Media Awards
UL Journalism takes centre-stage at the 2019 Smedias with ten nominations for students.
Arts & Culture, Features, News
Clubs&Socs, Sports
UL GAA well represented in the All-Star Awards
University of Limerick GAA club’s past and present students won All-Star Awards in camogie, hurling and football. The All Stars are a selection of the best players in football, camogie, hurling and ladies football to create a team of the year. On Thursday, the football All Star team was announced with Galway’s Ian Burke being handed the no.15 spot on …
Seven Stages in Learning a Second Language
By Evie Kearney 1. Tell yourself it can’t be that difficult All those other countries in Europe seem to know their own language and also be fluent in English…so how hard can it be via GIPHY 2. Realise it is that difficult Grammar? Word order? What do you mean Google Translate isn’t a reliable source? via GIPHY 3. Struggle …
How We Should “Make the Effort This Semester”
By Ann Cronin I will be honest: I like to look my very best for college every day. I’m not the only one, and this is in no way an attack towards those who like to put effort into their appearance. In the last issue of An Focal, we read an opinion piece that encouraged our peers to put a …
UL Kayak Club clean up on the river Shannon
By Charlotte Ryan & Cormac Rowe – ULKC Public Relations Officer On the 18th of April 2015, the University of Limerick Kayak Club took part in a river clean up on the section of the Shannon that flows through UL’s campus. Members of the club took to the water to collect the rubbish and debris that littered the rivers …
Profile – Paul Byrne
By Holly Kenny Paul Byrne, a first year student in Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) has been running a night called Riddim & Groove for the past two years with fellow classmates Teige Butler and Darren O’Carroll from Villiers Secondary School, who are both now second year students in LIT. The guys, similarly to most students loved their nights out. …
Petite Fashion
By Elaine Holmes One thing that has always bothered me, and presumably many other women who like to shop and browse online, is the models which are used. They are always tall and thin with seemingly ‘perfect’ figures. These type of clothes are simply not designed for smaller, more petite women who don’t have ‘legs that go on forever’. I …
MARE-ILYN MONROE WOULD BE PROUD
By Christina Foley Ellis, Equestrian Club PRO With the year halting to an end, UL Equestrian would like to thank all our committee, club members, advisors and sponsors that have contributed to one of our most successful years ever. We began the year on a high with the annual tetrathalon competition, hosted by none other than ourselves, in Ennis. For …
Civil Defence an ‘invaluable’ resource during Missing Person Search Operations
By Breda Graham It has become an everyday normality in Ireland to hear about a missing person, with the reports of missing people rising by 3,766 from 2003 to 2013. It is normal to scroll down the newsfeed of social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter and see posts about an ongoing search for a missing person or to …
Profile of UL First Year Journallism and New Media Student Michaela Deane
By Elaine Holmes Michaela Deane, a first-year student in the University of Limerick, sat down on her bed in Drumroe Village as her hectic college day finally drew to a close. The Journalism and New Media student has always had a huge interest in writing, and always makes time for it in her busy schedule at university. Her love and …