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📻Listen back: Prof Katriona O’Sullivan was on Newstalk’s Pat Kenny show where she discussed the newly opened National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education.

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November 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement will soon begin operations on a mission to study how stars form and evolve, writes Dr Emma Whelan of the Dept of Physics and MU's lead on the project. 🔭

@mu-physics.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

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November 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
📺Watch back: Prof Tim McCarthy on Futureville (Ep 2) demonstrated how automated drone docking station technology, supported by artificial intelligence, can help first responders deliver faster and more effective search-and-rescue operations in busy urban environments.

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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
MU researchers are set to receive over €3 million in funding from Research Ireland under the Frontiers for the Future Programme to address key challenges in areas including sustainable chemistry, antifungal resistance, and machine learning in astronomy.

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November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Did an Irish 'nation' ever exist? Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? Dr Patrick Wadden, DCU & Belmont Abbey College, provides a masterclass on the written sources and how Irish authors conceptualised Irishness in the early Middle Ages. @maynoothuniversity.ie open.spotify.com/episode/40rP...
Irish national identity in the early Middle Ages with Dr Patrick Wadden
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November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present. Their time limit… 3 minutes! The IUA ‘Three Minute Thesis’ competition is on Wednesday, November 19th. 👉 Visit www.iua.ie/3minutethesis to meet the finalists and register to save your seat!

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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📺One to watch: Prof Tim McCarthy, Dept of Computer Science, drone river rescue on the Liffey will feature on tonight's programme.

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Futureville Ireland returns tonight at 7pm on @rteone.rte.ie for its second series, supported by Research Ireland. Last year, Carla O'Brien and Dr Lollie Mancey reimagined Athlone as a city of the future. In 2025, they’re back to explore new ways science and tech can improve our lives! #ScienceWeek
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Maynooth University (MU) officially opened the National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education (NCIHE), Ireland’s first national centre dedicated to advancing equity, inclusion, and access in higher education.

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November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
All you need to know about string theory 🌌

The concept that string theory suggests a vast range of possible universes is explored by Kay Lehnert from MU’s Department of Physics.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Wider use of community sanctions can help to improve public safety while tackling the prison overcrowding crisis, write Dr Ian Marder, Dr Eoin Guilfoyle, Dr Lousie Kennefick, Dr Niamh Maguire and Professor Nicola Carr.
Opinion: Community sanctions make us all safer – here’s how to support them
Wider use of community sanctions can help to improve public safety while tackling the prison overcrowding crisis, write Dr Ian Marder, Dr Eoin Guilfoyle, Dr Lousie Kennefick, Dr Niamh Maguire and Professor Nicola Carr.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
MU’s School of Law and Criminology has opened a new Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, entitled Realising European Values through European Law (REVEL).

The @reveljmce.bsky.social Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence will be led by Prof Tobias Lock.

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November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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All you need to know about string theory. There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string theory, writes Kay Lehnert @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
All you need to know about string theory
There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string theory
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November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Great news for us here @maynoothuniversity.ie Follow @reveljmce.bsky.social to keep up to date with what we are up to over the next three years.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Golden morning on #SouthCampus

📸 by Daniel Balteanu
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Prof Roisín Higgins delivered her inaugural lecture at Maynooth University, titled Sensations of Conflict: Writing a Sensory History of the Troubles. The lecture explored how people experienced & remember the Northern Ireland conflict through the senses.

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Prof Roisín Higgins delivers Inaugural Lecture on sensory history of
Prof Roisín Higgins delivered her inaugural lecture at Maynooth University (MU), titled Sensations of Conflict: Writing a Sensory History of the Troubles. The lecture explored how people experienced
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November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Fond memories of yesterday's weather 🍂
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🧪✨ Science Night 2025 is coming!

Join us at Maynooth University on Friday, 14 Nov, 6–8:30 pm for a free, hands-on, family-friendly evening of science, experiments, and fun!

🎟️ Book your ticket now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1801387872...

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November 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A pioneering research exercise in Dublin has demonstrated how automated drone docking station technology, supported by AI, can help first responders deliver faster & more effective search-and-rescue operations in busy urban environments.

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November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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New report from Prof Pauline Cullen of @maynoothuniversity.ie in conjunction with @nwc.bsky.social, demonstrates that women's presence in decision-making structures in Ireland, diversifies policy agenda & increases emphasis on social justice matters www.nwci.ie/learn/articl...
Women’s leadership drives progress on gender equality policy
National Women’s Council report explores how women’s political representation in Ireland has influenced reproductive rights and gender-based violence policy
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Congratulations to our MU Equality Officer, Sam Blanckensee, who has been appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. 👏👏👏

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November 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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The City Centre Crime Victim Survey, which we designed with advice from academics at Maynooth U, was carried out by Amarách Research. It draws on a sample of 600, and has a margin of error of 3.9%. It looks at both perceptions of safety in town, and respondents' actual experiences of crime there. 2/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Baird IMRAM ar champas, 6 Samhain ag 1pm, Seomra na Gaeilge.

Cuirfidh scríbhneoir cónaithe @maynoothuniversity.ie, Dubhán Ó Longáin, fáilte romhat ag an ócáid spleodrach, shiamsúil seo.

Bronnfar ticéid d'imeachtaí @imramfeile.bsky.social ar na rannpháirtithe is cróga. Saorchead isteach agus lón.
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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*Widame (Proto-Celtic “we found out”), a conference of postgraduate scholars in Celtic Studies, will take place 7-8 November 2025 in 1.33 IONTAS in @maynoothuniversity.ie.

Conference schedule and registration is available here: buff.ly/b3GjydF
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🎓 Big congrats to Dr Shauna Mooney on recently earning her PhD from @maynoothuniversity.ie ! 🥳🎉Wishing Dr Mooney every success in all that comes next! 🌟 🌟Shauna is picture with her supervisor Professor Niamh Cahill. @dwmalone.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #PhD #Research #Statistics #GlobalHealth
October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The staff at Maynooth Univeristy Library (and Library Cat) wish you all a HAPPY HALLOWEEN! #MULibrary #halloween #MUlibrarycat
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM