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Details of another outbreak of swine flu, which began earlier this week among language students on the campus of the Galway Mayo Institute ofTechnology (GMIT) in Galway city, emerged today.

In a statement the college said three cases of swine flu had been confirmed among young Italian students attending a summer language course run by an English language company called MLI on the GMIT campus.

"The students have been quarantined at their accommodation in line with HSE regulations under the supervision of two medical doctors who are accompanying the group throughout their stay in Galway," a college spokeswoman said.

"Since the cases were confirmed on Tuesday all of the other remaining students in the group have not attended any activities on the GMIT campus," she added.

She stressed GMIT is open as normal and all appropriate precautions advised by the HSE for third level colleges in the context of dealing with the swine flu pandemic were in place.

In the past week students have been sent home from three Irish language courses in the Donegal Gaeltacht due to swine flu outbreaks.