Technological Universities in Ireland

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A Technological University is a designation of a type of third-level institution in Ireland. The potential for such universities was established through legislation in 2018. [1] Since then, various groups of institutes of technology began a merger process to create five technological universities:

In May 2021, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) announced plans to join an existing TU. [28] It had previously investigated the possibility of becoming a TU in its own right. [29] By May 2022, DkIT was looking at a merger with an existing TU. [30] [31]

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