During the past Spring and Autumn semesters of 2022, after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid lockdowns, we were finally able to celebrate our 20th and 21st offerings of the ‘Inclusive Play & Leisure […]
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Promoting Physical Activity in Secondary Schools for Health (2PASS-4H) inaugural congress: Registration and abstract submission now open – Caera Grady.
2PASS- 4 Health Congress- How to get your school moving Partners: France (University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour) (lead institution), Ireland (University of Limerick), Spain (University of Zaragoza), Portugal (University of Porto), Belgium […]

PESS receives the Athena SWAN Bronze award – dr elaine murtagh.
Members of the PESS Athena SWAN committee were thrilled to receive the Bronze department Athena SWAN award at the Ireland awards ceremony 20th October 2021. The Athena SWAN charter is a framework that […]
Reflections on the past and update on future plans and activities – Enrique García Bengoechea.
Hi everyone, It seems like yesterday since I arrived in Limerick from Melbourne in a rainy day at the end of January of 2018 to take on a UL, EHS Dean’s Fellowship working with the […]

First year experience as an IRC Enterprise Partnership Scholar – Conor Raleigh
My name is Conor Raleigh and I am a PhD student in PESS and Irish Research Council (IRC) Enterprise Partnership Scheme Scholar with the Sport Ireland Institute as the enterprise partner. My aim with this […]

How to Get off the ‘Rollercoaster’ of Quarantine-workouts, and Keep Climbing! – Patrick Dolan
If you haven’t bought equipment for your “home gym” by this point in the pandemic, I doubt you’ll need it just for a final few weeks of lockdown (please hopefully). Save your money for that […]

BYO : meals and snacks to bring on campus during COVID restrictions – Dr. Catherine Norton
Everyone is aware that there are significant restrictions to movement in / on campus. Your peers, your faculty, your teammates are nowhere to be seen (other than via a screen!). For most of us, we […]

COVID-19; from telerehabilitation and back to face-to-face physiotherapy – Caithriona Yeomans
It feels like a distant memory now, when we were asked by Leo Varadkar to “come together as a nation by staying apart from each other”. This resulted in many people having to quickly change […]

Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster Research Seminar & Launch of Exercise is Medicine at UL
Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster Research Seminar & Launch of Exercise is Medicine at UL Dr. Matthew Herring, PhD, FACSM; Dr. Brian Carson, PhD; Professor Catherine Woods, PhD; Professor Liam Glynn, MD, MICGP, FRCSI, […]

Letter to the Editor: Supervised exercise for cardiovascular rehabilitation—the MedEx UL programme
Summary: In a letter to the ‘Irish Journal of Medical Science’, we recently described “MedExUL”. This is an aerobic exercise programme that has been initially developed for patients with cardiovascular disease. The high quality of […]