Universities in Ireland

Does anybody have an opinion about any of the Irish universities?

TCD (Trinity) is the oldest and generally highly regarded. Although I've heard accomodation can be patchy. Dublin is a great city but can be fairly expensive (although as you probably know tuition fees are low in Ireland).

There's a good thread about it here:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1550377

What course are you considering? And why Ireland?

I think University College Cork is good, it ranks highly and was named Irish University of the Year 2016. My cousin did his Masters degree there

Actually Cork is my no.1 on the list. Do you know anything else? Or maybe where could I find out more?

Actually Cork is my no.1 on the list. Do you know anything else? Or maybe where could I find out more?

You could also ask in here about Irish universities
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=116

Also here about Philosophy courses
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=350

And there's a site called boards.ie for all things to do with Ireland.
They have a UCC forum: http://www.boards.ie/b/forum/548

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If you are talking about the island of Ireland as opposed to the 26 County Republic there is Queens University Belfast which is a Russell Group uni. My son's cousins all went to Trinity College Dublin . Wherever you go you will get a great quality education.

Good point! (And I'm NornIron...)

Also Ulster Uni - but I doubt they offer Philosphy.

Hello. I'm from Manchester but moved to Newry with my then 2 year old son 17 years ago. My son and his college friends and teachers all went to Ulster University's Jordanstown Campus for a look around. None of them were too impressed. He was doing a Health and Social Care Level 3 Extended Diploma. He's just finished the HNC . Nearly every other uni anywhere offers H+SC which would essentially be the same thing. Except Ulster. They do Health and Social Care Policy and it's quite different. Anyway my son hated it when he went that day and really doesn't want to do this Health and Social Care Policy degree. But the Jordanstown campus are moving all their courses out of Jordanstown by September 2019 to their Belfast campus. Which sounds great. Except that the accommodation will still be at Jordanstown. Grr.

Yep and that's probably why it's one of the few universities to have a £6k tuition fee for UK (ex NI) students.... I just mentioned it for completeness.