Iognáid G. Ó Muircheartaigh is an Irish academic who served as president of NUI Galway between 2000 and 2008.
The Ó Muircheartaigh Hall in the university's sports centre is named in his honour.
[1][2][3] From County Kerry, he attended an Irish-speaking school, Colaiste Mhuire, on Dublin's Parnell Square.
He earned a PhD in statistics at the University of Glasgow, and he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at Stanford University, and a US National Academy of Sciences Senior Research Associateship at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
[4] During his term as president, NUI Galway conferred honorary doctorates on Nelson Mandela, Louise Arbour, Sr. Helen Prejean, Richard Goldstone, Philippe Kirsch, Pius Langa and Cyril Ramaphosa.