College Bar | NUI Galway
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• It is located in Ireland's westerly city of Galway
• A tertiary-level educational institution, it is ranked among the top 2 per cent of universities in the world
• The university was founded in 1845 as Queen's College, Galway, and was more recently known as University College, Galway (UCG) (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile, Gaillimh or COG)
• Alumni include the incumbent Taoiseach and President of Ireland, Enda Kenny and Michael D
• Higgins respectively, as well as numerous other prominent politicians
• Other leading figures in Irish official life to have been educated here include Attorney General Máire Whelan and Comptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy
• NUI Galway is a member of the Coimbra Group, a network of 40 long-established European universities