Dr. Sarah Kelly is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Health in Institute of Technology Carlow.  Sarah completed her PhD in Clinical Exercise Physiology in Dublin City University.  She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport Science and a Masters in Exercise Physiology both from Dublin City University.

Sarah has provided sports science support throughout the county in various roles including Monaghan Senior County Football team, Irish Senior International Compromise Rules team, DCU Athletics and Sigerson team, Dublin Senior Football team, a number of Superleague basketball teams and the GAA National Intercounty Referee’s.  She was also a sports contributor on Two Tube, a primetime strand broadcast on RTE 2.

Sarah’s research interests have focused on both sports performance and exercise/health-related issues. A major focus of her research has involved the role of exercise in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, specifically she examines how exercise affects blood vessels in healthy and diseased individuals. Sarah has many achievements in her own sporting career, including winning a number of basketball titles and captaining DCU Mercy to win their first National Superleague title in 2007.

Niall is a Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance and a member of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in DCU.

He received his Master’s degree from Purdue University, Indiana, PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, and completed a three year National Institute of Health Post- Doctoral Research Fellowship in immunology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre.

He was Director of the Clinical Exercise Research Laboratory in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre and later moved to Connecticut to take a position as a Senior Research Scientist in Nuclear and Preventive Cardiology at Hartford Hospital.  He has published over 100 research papers in international peer reviewed journals and presented his work at international conferences.

Niall is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and has a keen interest in all sports especially, Gaelic football and athletics.