An Focal

An Focal is the University of Limerick's only student newspaper, run by the University of Limerick Students' Union. The newspaper was first published in 1992.^[2] The production of the paper was formerly the responsibility of the vice-president/communications officer within University of Limerick Students' Union. Following the wind-down of this role in 2012, a full-time student editor was appointed as part time staff.^[3] The editor is assisted by an editorial team of student volunteers as well as student contributors. The paper's print schedule was, up until December 2017, fortnightly before the union decided to change it to monthly with the union citing that the paper had "deteriorated considerably in terms of layout, spelling, grammar, use of colour and overall design".^[4]

An Focal

Type	Monthly(academic year)[1]
Format	Compact
School	University of Limerick
Editor	(2021/2022) Cian Dalton
Founded	September 1992
Headquarters	University of Limerick Students Union Castletroy Limerick Ireland
Website	anfocal.ie

Awards

Oxygen.ie Student Media Awards

• People's Choice Award 2011 - Under editor Finn McDuffie.^[1]
• People's Choice Award 2017 - Under editor Paul Saunders.^[5]
• Website of the year 2019 - Under editor Christine Costello.^[6]

TV3 National Media Awards

• Student Newspaper of the Year - Under Editor Finn McDuffie.^[2]