Well here we are, the last edition of 2018. Many of you will be finishing assignments and preparing for exams but hopefully you can spare a few minutes during your break to hear me ‘shite’ on for the last time this year. So what’s in the news? Well unless you’ve been living under a rock…
Ah yes it’s that time of year again, where we type “when do” into Google and then the rest of the sentence is filled out automatically to “when do the clocks change.” That’s just the beginning however. I will have needed more fingers to count how many times I debated whether we gain or lose…
The recent Budget drew criticism from all areas of third-level education due to a lack of planned capital investment in our national universities. The Union of Students of Ireland (USI) in particular condemned the fiscal decisions of the government as they claimed that the allocation of €500 million towards a ‘rainy day fund’, should have…
At the beginning of October, the University Express launched a survey aimed towards students of University College Cork in order to determine whether students view racism as an issue in UCC, whether students have experienced or witnessed racism in or around the UCC campus, and how it affects students of all ethnicities and backgrounds. The…
The weeks are already flying by, well they are for me anyway. There has been plenty of drama in UCC over the last couple of weeks and it’s been stressful to say the least. I also realised while writing this editorial that I have three assignments and one in-class test coming up soon within the…
Here it is folks, what SU election candidates have been saying in their manifestos for years, a monthly SU Q&A in the Express. This year we are really focusing on transparency and an open door policy and what better way to kill two birds with one stone than to have a monthly Q&A. As this…
Enquiries have been made to various departments in UCC following a confrontation at a Young Fine Gael (YFG) society event involving An Tánaiste, Simon Coveney and two Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) protestors. The incident occurred on October 1st in the West Wing building where the meeting, which was due to be a talk on Brexit,…
On Monday 1st October, An Tánaiste Simon Coveney TD attended an event in UCC organised by the UCC Young Fine Gael society. On the night the Cork South-Central representative spoke about a range of topics including: Brexit and Housing. The University Express had exclusive access to the meeting and were able to gather an insight…
Last week Mary Crilly of Cork Sexual Violence Centre announced that three students in Cork have come to them having been raped in the first two weeks of colleges re-opening. Two of the three students of UCC and CIT have dropped out of college to go home to their families. Mary Crilly tells us that…
On the night of Monday 1st October, UCC’s Young Fine Gael Society hosted an event with An Tánaiste Simon Coveney in the West Wing 5, which was open to the public. The discussion was due to centre around the ongoing Brexit negotiations and other topical issues. As Mr Coveney entered the room, he was immediately…