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University of Limerick

Europe

UCD research on corporate tax avoidance among seven Irish projects to receive EU funding

Seven researchers across five universities will receive a total of €14 million from the European Research Council
  • Vincent Rastfeld
  • November 23, 2023
News Focus

The great AIB sell-off – nine views on what should happen next

Almost three-fifths of AIB is now in private ownership after the state sold 5 per cent of the bank – and now it must decide what to do with the remainder
  • Donal MacNamee,
  • Ellie Donnelly and
  • Kathleen Gallagher
  • November 12, 2023

A Simply Better
Christmas

Delicious recipes by Neven Maguire

Economics

Economists round on President over ‘lazy’ and ‘uninformed spiel’

Michael D Higgins claimed economists in Ireland were ‘stuck in an inexorable growth narrative’
  • Daniel Murray
  • April 30, 2023
Data

Hundreds of students have personal emails exposed in data breach at University of Limerick

UL has notified the Data Protection Commission about the issue and apologised to impacted students
  • Donal MacNamee
  • October 5, 2022
Property

UL says former official may seek injunction if it releases report on €8m site purchase

The University of Limerick has refused for months to release the contents of the KPMG report into its acquisition of the former Dunnes site in the city centre in 2019
  • Donal MacNamee
  • September 17, 2022
Higher Education

Top university tells staff to ‘strongly recommend’ mask-wearing amid concern over future Covid surge

Trinity said Covid was likely to ‘continue to interrupt our plans for normal functioning in the coming months’, with several other universities also preparing contingency plans if cases rise
  • Donal MacNamee
  • August 25, 2022
Education

Cost of new student centre at University of Limerick rises €10m due to ‘hyperinflation’

Completion of the new 3,529 sq m building has been delayed by four years due to Covid and rising costs
  • Donal MacNameeand
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • August 2, 2022
Education

UL to use Dunnes site without ‘substantial addition’ to building in new plan for €8m city campus

University president asks staff for ideas for site as doubts persist over college’s ambition to educate 4,000 students at landmark campus in Limerick city centre
  • Donal MacNamee
  • July 29, 2022
Politics

Spending watchdog seeks powers to compel Limerick university to show key report on €8m site purchase

Public Accounts Committee said it needed ‘power of direction’ set down in legislation to force UL to release the tightly held KPMG report
  • Donal MacNamee
  • July 22, 2022
Education

State lifts €3.7m funding penalties on University of Limerick

Kerstin Mey, UL’s president, told staff in memo that the decision was a ‘clear signal that UL has turned a corner in terms of addressing historic governance shortcomings’
  • Donal MacNamee
  • July 21, 2022
education

Key report into UL’s Dunnes site purchase took eight months longer than planned

KPMG’s investigation into UL’s acquisition of the €8m site was due to be completed in under a month but took far longer, causing delays to scrutiny of the deal
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 23, 2022
education

Doubts over University of Limerick’s new city centre campus due to funding shortfall

New documents seen by the Business Post show the government was warned just 300 students could be educated at the former Dunnes site instead of the planned 4,000 without an €87m government grant
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 8, 2022

University of Limerick says legal action by former top official blocking publication of report into €8m site purchase

High Court action by former chief operating officer means the university will not share important KPMG report with Dáil’s spending watchdog
  • Donal MacNamee
  • May 4, 2022

University of Limerick got legal threat over report into €8m site purchase

University says it is unable to publish KPMG report into acquisition of Dunnes site until threat is ‘reviewed’
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 22, 2022

State withheld capital grant from Limerick university amid concerns over €8m site purchase

Department paused payment of €2.5m grant to UL after it was heavily scrutinised for the acquisition of a former Dunnes Stores site in 2019
  • Donal MacNamee
  • December 15, 2021

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