Rebranding NUIG to University of Galway will cost around €500,000

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – NUI Galway’s rebranding exercise will cost at least half a million euros, it has been confirmed.

A spokesperson for NUIG confirmed that the university’s governing body has approved a budget of €500,000 to implement the new name.

The name-change was announced last week, following a meeting of Údarás na hOllscoile, where it was decided the university would become known as ‘Ollscoil na Gaillimhe –University of Galway’.

The new name comes into effect from the beginning of the new academic year in September.

Cost implications of the decision were not included in the statements made by the university about the change.

But in response to queries from the Galway City Tribune, a spokesperson for NUI Galway said: “The name change to Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway received unanimous approval at Údarás na hOllscoile (the Governing Authority).

“At the meeting it was confirmed that the project has a budget of €500,000 – an investment in our future and our brand, and an investment which deepens our connection with the city, the region, the West of Ireland and all of the rich culture, heritage and history that it offers.”

Pádraic Toomey, a former NUIG Students’ Union President, was critical of the cost implications.

“They wonder why we complain that money isn’t being spent in the right places,” he said. It’s understood the money will be used for changing things such as websites, literature, letterheads and signage.

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