Waterford Institute of Technology
They gym is often the first port of call for students checking out a college’s sports facilities. Photograph: iStockphoto/Getty Images
Beyond the course – what else should you consider when choosing a college?

Careers and courses, courses and careers: open days have a clear focus. In the lead-up, students will be advised to take to Qualifax and CareersPortal(...)

As a third-level student you will have time to explore many areas of interest. Photograph: iStockphoto/Getty Images
What to expect when going to college

Starting college for the first time might seem like a challenge. Even some of the smaller colleges will have thousands more students than your seconda(...)

Carlow Institute of Technology mechanical engineering students built their own single-seated Formula One style race car
Institutes of Technology: All you need to know about open days

Carlow Institute of Technology When is open day? Carlow Campus: November 16th Wexford Campus: November 17th Life on campus Just 10 minutes’ wal(...)

Eoin Gill and Sheila Donegan from Maths Week with Jadine Rock of Rutland National School, Dublin, at the launch of Maths Week Ireland 2017. Photograph Shane O’Neill
Week-long maths festival to hold events North and South

Maths will take to the streets this year in a week-long series of events that make up Maths Week Ireland, an all-Ireland festival starting next Saturd(...)

Killester coach Karl Kilbride. “It’s not an easy one going away to Glanmire given how good they’ve been the last few years.” Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Glanmire and Killester to go head-to-head in Cork

The full range of women’s Super League fixtures will get under way this coming weekend, with eight of the nine teams in action this Saturday and Sunda(...)

Sarah Johnson: ‘You can make your own choices and decisions and nobody is spoon-feeding you’
’I was nervous entering college. It had to be a new chapter for me’

Sam Blanckensee Occupation: Sam Blanckensee is national development officer at the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland. Earlier this year, he was(...)

Leo Varadkar said investing in leading-edge scientific and technological research was good for the Irish economy and would deliver ‘innovations which can improve our quality of life’. Photograph: Collins
Four new research centres to be set up under €114m investment

The setting up of four new world-class Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centres, backed by €114 million in Government and Irish industry fund(...)

Waterford manager Derek McGrath. Photograph: Inpho/Dan Sheridan
Derek McGrath: A real leader of Déise men

The tunnel under the old stand in Thurles, first Sunday in June 2015. Waterford have just beaten Cork 3-19 to 1-21 and Derek McGrath has his first Mun(...)

The plant in the south of Waterford City once employed more than 3,000 people. Photograph: Eric Luke
Waterford Crystal site owners appeal vacant sites inclusion

The owners of the former Waterford Crystal factory site have said it is hard to comprehend why it was placed on the State’s vacant sites register. Th(...)

Alva Horgan: “I’d say push yourself to the limit and don’t think you can’t do what anybody else can do.”
‘I found Dublin old-school because men dominate everything’
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  • September 1, 2017, 05:59

Alva Horgan was working for Dillon Eustace in the IFSC when she decided to spend a year in Australia with her friends. The Dublin woman was climbing(...)