Lorna Barry is a Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Sports Surgery Clinic, Santry. Her position within the Sports Surgery Clinic as a strength and conditioning coach involves working within the sports medicine department, focusing on […]
Victory for UL in Ashbourne Cup
In a repeat of the 2016 final, UL Senior Camogie Team captured the Ashbourne Cup for the second year in a row in February 2017. The UL team defeated UCC in the final with the […]
Imagery and the Brain
Dr. Christopher R. Madan, a postdoctoral researcher working at the Department of Psychology at Boston College, presented a research seminar entitled “Movement imagery: Measurement and role in cognition” in the PESS on February 7th. Chris […]
Graduate Profile: Alan Swanton (Sports Performance Analyst)
Alan Swanton, is a Sports Performance Analyst at Sport Ireland Institute and has held this position since 2010. He works with high performance Irish athletes and is responsible for performance analysis service delivery across three core high […]
Study@UL…Study in the Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences
UL Open Day: Saturday January 14th 2016 We will have presentations on our degree programmes BSc. Physical Education and BSc. Sport and Exercise Sciences at the open day. In addition there will be campus tours […]
Six athletes from PESS Awarded Inaugural UL Sports Scholarships
At the Annual Scholarships Awards on November 28th 2016, the inaugural UL Sports Scholarships were launched. Twenty-nine outstanding sportspeople received bursaries totalling €95,000 and six of these recipients are students from the department of Physical […]
The Science behind a Successful Athlete
As part of Limerick Festival of Science, the department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences hosted a number of workshops on November 15th 2016 to expose the science behind athletic performance in a series of […]
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