by Chloe O’Keeffe There will be increase garda presence put into place for the Castletroy area over the next few days. The news was announced by national media yesterday evening, and confirmed by University of Limerick President, Professor Kirsten Mey in an email to students and staff at the University this afternoon. “In light of increasing concerns about student gatherings …
by Chloe O’Keeffe Following an email that came into student email accounts this morning from Vice President, Professor Nigel Healy it has been announced that the University of Limerick will continue with the current academic delivery model for the remainder of the academic year 2020/2021. This means that the majority of courses will remain online. On- campus activity and essential …
Hey everyone! My name is Chloe O’Keeffe and I am the current editor of An Focal UL. We’ve had a pretty rough beginning to the semester and year ahead with the An Focal website, but the website is thankfully up and running again (as you can see!) and I’m very excited to be working with some amazing writers over the …
University of Limerick Post Graduate Students Union (ULPSU) host election hustings before Thursdays vote.
Professor Eoin Devereux, a lecturer at University of Limerick (UL), has been shortlisted for a 2018 Hennessy Literary Award. 18 writers have been shortlisted for the prestigious Hennessy Awards, which celebrate the work of emerging Irish writers. Professor Devereux told An Focal that he is “thrilled” to be shortlisted. “Although I’ve been writing on and off since my teens, …
I decided to write this instead of doing college work, even though I’m in Final Year and I really should be doing work instead of procrastinating, but oh well. As each day passes, I can’t help thinking about how little time I have left in UL. It’s hard to believe I started, fresh faced and young, nearly four years ago. …
University of Limerick (UL) has been shortlisted for three DELTA (Disciplinary Excellence in Learning Teaching and Assessment) Awards. The inaugural DELTA Awards seek to recognize ambitious and innovative approaches to teaching. The School of Law, the Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS) and the Department of Clinical Therapies have been recognized. The School of Law’s project ‘Clinical Legal Education through …
Gym memes are a popular phenomenon on social media. We’ve all seen videos of people doing things wrong in the gym and most of the responses to them are people finding it funny, but is gym shaming really okay? An Focal conducted a Twitter survey to find out how students felt about gym memes and gym shaming. 50% of 28 …
When I first heard of the word LuLitMi I genuinely that it was a medical condition. To be honest, what really stuck out to me when I entered this forum was the noise. To any passer-by it sounded like normal chatter, but if you listened a little closer you could hear ideas being challenged and morals being questioned. If you …
Members of the Irish Supreme Court will visit the University of Limerick (UL) during their visit to Limerick in early March. The Supreme Court will visit the county from the 5th to the 7th of March to officially open the new courthouse and to hear three cases. During their time in Limerick, members of the judiciary will conduct various …