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IRISH universities have dramatically improved their positions in their world rankings this year.

UCD, the country's biggest university, has broken into the top 100 for the first time, moving from 108th place to 89th place this year

The rankings also showed a strong performance by the country's other universities with DCU improving from 302nd to 279th place, DIT easing from 328th place to 326th place and NUI Maynooth breaking into the 401-500 range for the first time along with the University of Limerick.

According to the ranking web of world universities 2008, the Top three universities in Ireland are as follows:

University of Dublin, Trinity College - World Position: 223

National University of Ireland Cork - World Position: 289

National University of Ireland Dublin - World Position: 403

According to the THES - QS World University Rankings (2007), four Irish institutions are ranked in the Top 150 in Europe:

Trinity College Dublin - 13th in Europe
University College Dublin - 73rd in Europe
University College Cork - 122nd in Europe
Dublin City University - 130th in Europe