Ireland’s first trans-regional university - Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest has been officially opened formally confirming Ennis as a University Town.

The chair of the Joint Governing Body of the AIT-LIT Consortium, Professor Tom Collins, has today welcomed the announcement by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD that Professor Vincent Cunnane is to be the first President of the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest. 

Irelands first Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) air ambulance has airlifted its 3000th patient.

The Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) air ambulance is on standby at Shannon Airport rather than its usual base in Athlone.