By the time they turn 18, most athletes will already have spent years at their chosen sports but if college is their chosen path, it can become the time they start to earn some financial benefits for all their efforts. Sports scholarships have long been a feature of the US college path. Now, they are, … Read more
A top University of Limerick official has resigned his post, a year after the institution was rocked by a botched property deal in which it overpaid €5.2 million for student housing. Andrew Flaherty was chief commercial officer of UL since October 2020. He had responsibility for commercial activities, buildings and estates when UL went ahead … Read more
Joseph O’Connor can remember the moment when he decided to become a writer. “If I thought about it carefully enough, I could probably come up with the week, certainly the month,” he says. “When I was 17, my first girlfriend gave me a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. She had very cool parents … Read more