{"id":401754,"date":"2026-04-16T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:02:16","slug":"2025-all-ireland-scholarship-winners-honoured-at-ul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401754\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 All Ireland Scholarship winners honoured at UL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025 All Ireland Scholarship winners, Alice Claffey (Cork), Se\u00e1n Weldon (Dublin), Amy Egan (Sligo), and Kosy Chikwendo (Dublin) with Guest of Honour, Kellie Harrington and Sponsor, JP McManus at awards ceremony in University of Limerick, Saturday 4th April. Pic: Arthur Ellis<\/p>\n<p>Three Limerick students have been awarded a 2025 All Ireland Scholarship, which will cover the full duration of their undergraduate studies<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/077-Limerick-Thomond-Community-College-Oscar-Ng-Principal-Vivienne-Hogan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388961\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2503247104665007;width:448px;height:auto\"  \/>Limerick Thomond Community College student, Oscar Ng, with Principal, Vivienne Hogan, Willie O\u2019Dea TD, and Jp McManus<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Ng, Sib\u00e9al N\u00ed Fhlaithbheartaigh, and Daniel Onyekaba were honoured at the All Ireland Scholarships Awards Ceremony on the 4th of April in University Concert Hall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ul.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">University of Limerick<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In attendance at the ceremony was All Ireland Scholarships Sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilovelimerick.ie\/?s=JP+McManus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">JP McManus<\/a>, Guest of Honour and Double Olympic Champion, Kellie Harrington, Deputy Willie O\u2019Dea TD, and Head of the Skills and Education Group for the Department for the Economy NI, Louise Watson, as well as the family, friends and school representatives of the scholarship recipients. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commenting at the awards ceremony, All Ireland Scholarships Sponsor JP McManus said, \u201cI am delighted to be here today to celebrate the outstanding academic achievements of the 2025 All Ireland Scholarship winners from across the island of Ireland. <\/p>\n<p>advertisement<a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTEyLDEwLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesavoycollection.com\/home\/gift-vouchers\/\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Savoy_2x1_900_900.png\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a>advertisement<br \/>advertisement<a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTA4LDEwLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/limetreebelltable.ie\/events\/macbeth\/\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Macbeth-3.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a>advertisement<br \/>advertisement<a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTA5LDEwLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/limericktutorial.ie\/\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MPU-Tutorial-College-.png\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a>advertisement<br \/>advertisement<a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTE1LDEwLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.griffith.ie\/locations\/limerick\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Advert-ILL.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a>advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/075-Limerick-Gaelcholaiiste-Luimnigh-Kevin-O_Raghallaigh-Principal-representing-Sibeial-Nii-Fhlaithb.jpeg\" alt=\"Three Limerick students have been awarded a 2025 All Ireland Scholarship, which will cover the full duration of their undergraduate studies\" class=\"wp-image-388959\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2503247104665007;width:408px;height:auto\"  \/>Limerick Gaelchola\u00eciste Luimnigh Kevin O\u2019Raghallaigh Principal representing Sibe\u00ecal Ni\u00ec Fhlaithbheartaigh<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo date, 2,051 students have received an All Ireland Scholarship and 1,437 of those students have since graduated from university. Today is a very special occasion for the scholarship winners, their families, and teachers. We wish them every success as they continue their studies at university and look forward to seeing what they accomplish in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the event, Guest of Honour and Double Olympic Champion, Kellie Harrington, said all of the honourees should be \u201cproud of themselves and their accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI\u2019m delighted to be here today as the Guest of Honour for the All Ireland Scholarship Awards in the University of Limerick. It is a very special occasion for the 2025 winners, their families, and school principals, and they should be very proud of themselves and their accomplishments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/074-Limerick-Crescent-College-Comprehensive-Diarmuid-Mullins-Principal-representing-Daniel-Onyekaba..jpeg\" alt=\"074 Limerick Crescent College Comprehensive Diarmuid Mullins Principal representing Daniel Onyekaba\" class=\"wp-image-388960\"  \/>Limerick Crescent College Comprehensive Diarmuid Mullins Principal representing Daniel Onyekaba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 All Ireland Scholarship winners, Alice Claffey (Cork), Se\u00e1n Weldon (Dublin), Amy Egan (Sligo), and Kosy Chikwendo (Dublin)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[177208,61,60,66155,63491,43,19290],"class_list":{"0":"post-401754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-all-ireland-scholarships","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-jp-mcmanus","12":"tag-kellie-harrington","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-university-of-limerick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}