Galway Bay fm newsroom - NUI Galway has announced the recipients of the scholarship set up to commemorate the Kurdistan family killed in a Ballinasloe crash
Dr. Karzan Sabah D Ahmed, a researcher from Iraqi Kurdistan died alongside his wife and baby daughter in a major road crash near Ballinasloe last year.
The successful students are Aoife Murphy from Loughrea, who's completed her BSc in Environmental Science.
And Niamh Nolan from Listowel, Co. Kerry, who's a final year student of BSc in Environmental Science.
Both will undertake a three month research scholarship in High Nature Value farmland this summer.
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