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06 Sept 2025

Donegal students finally get their graduation day at University of Galway

University of Galway are catching up with those who got through their exams in the years of the pandemic and, as always, there were plenty from Donegal there when the graduation day arrived

Donegal students finally get their graduations at University of Galway

Elise Byrne from Barna, Co Galway, Treasa Ní Mhíocháin from Letterkenny and Sarah Meehan from Donegal Town were conferred with an Honours Bachelor of Science (Speech and Language Therapy) in 202

University of Galway took almost 1,000 graduates from the classes of 2020 and 2021 back to campus over three days for special celebratory events.

The events have been organised specifically for graduates who completed studies in 2021 and whose winter conferring was postponed and also for graduates who completed studies in 2020 and were conferred in absentia due to public health restrictions during the pandemic.

As always in the west, there were plenty from Donegal and some of them bumped into photographer Aengus McMahon.


Daniel Doherty from Carndonagh and Matthew McLoughlin from Clonmany, who were conferred with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in 2021


Erica Duignan from Ballybofey, who was conferred with an Honours Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Obstetrics (MB,BCh, BAO) in 2021

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