The discipline of Physiology is actively engaged in numerous outreach activities each year. We feel it is important to communicate and liase with the public to encourage and engage young minds into studying physiology and highlight the study opportunities available at NUI Galway. Presenting research interests and findings to the lay community is important such the public are aware and encouraged by the ongoing research in the university and its impact it could have for them and their families into the future. Such reports and findings are often communicated in the local, national and international media and thus have received wide attention.