Hurling:It is with great sadness that we report the untimely death of UCC’s hurling manager and hall of fame recipient, Paul O’Connor. O’Connor had a successful career at all levels, winning the Harty Cup with the North Monastery, a pair of county titles with Na Piarsaigh and playing Senior hurling with Cork for three years….
Results are what managers are defined and remembered by. The cream always rises as the cliche goes. Take Chelsea for example; Mourinho produced banal, mundane performances on a weekly basis, and for this reason was sacked by Roman Abromovich. Ever since, the Russian billionaire has failed to find a replacement to combine his dream style…
Three-quarters of the way through the All-Ireland camogie final, the incumbent champions Wexford had just goaled to catapult themselves out of sight of a tiring Cork side. The game seemed to be getting away from the Rebelettes as Aoife Murray returned the ball to play, her puck out bouncing high towards an onrushing Wexford defender….
On a bright and sunny Friday, the same day as the first batch of next year’s Freshers were setting foot on campus, five of Ireland’s top sportspeople were honoured as a part of the college’s continuing UCC Sport 100 celebrations. They may all have been initiated in different codes but what linked them was far…
On Sunday next, Galway and Kilkenny will meet for the third time in the 2012 Senior Hurling Championship, Joe Canning’s late equalizer insuring that we will be treated to the first All-Ireland final replay since 1959. Immediately after the final whistle had sounded, “fans” took to social networking sites and vented their anger at the…
It’s been forty years since the release of perhaps the defining moment in the defining metal band’s discography. Long the subject of debate among Black Sabbath fans, Volume Four has lasted the test of time, and is an important milestone in the genre’s evolution. Eoghan Lyng take’s a look at why it matters. For an…
From the opening feedback through to the final jagged notes, Wound Upon Wound’s crushing debut clocks in at just over 50 minutes of uncompromising bleakness and brutality. All the necessary ingredients are on hand for a solid dose of black/doom metal: guttural vocals with a range from the near subsonic to a harrowing wail, a…
Mike McGrath-Bryan looks at Irish metal’s latest offering Irish metal is brilliant. You know this. Oftentimes, however, it can get lost in its obsession with tradition and orthodoxy, and every so often a release comes along that takes that oeuvre and gives it a good shake. Dublin black-metal outfit (don’t call them punks!) Sodb (pronounced…
UCC Friends of MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders) Society are hosting an interactive cholera tent exhibition to campus this Tuesday, the 25th of September. The event, which takes place as part of MSF Ireland Week, aims to provide UCC’s students with more awareness about the work of the NGO by affording them an…
In the latest in a series of formulaic ramblings about local music, Music Editor Mike McGrath-Bryan takes a look both at what we have to be proud of in our city’s independent music community, and the challenges that face it in the immediate future. Involvement in the local music scene lends one the opportunity to…