New updated guidelines for the diagnosis, managements and care of patients with the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes have been published for the first time in 20 years. A recently formed international consortium of over 90 experts in the field of the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes published their research in the American Journal of Medical Genetics on Wednesday, March 15th….
Since January of 2015 Corks University Business School at University College Cork has been one of Ireland’s largest business schools. Already home to the largest number of full time undergraduate students in any business school in Ireland, and with the second highest number of postgrads, it also boasts the highest level of research income. The…
The Government could be asked to pay out another €10m in State funding to save the stalled Cork Event Centre project from collapsing. Over two years on from the Government’s €20m investment in the building of the proposed 6,000 seater venue on the old Beamish and Crawford site, Minister Simon Coveney has admitted that an…
UCC students have been warned by University management of the legal and disciplinary repercussions resulting from misbehaviour or from disrespecting local residents during Rag Week. Last year’s Rag Week raised €16,000 for charity, and this year’s events began this Monday, with measures being taken by college management and the Students’ Union to try to ensure…
The HSE has issued a public health warning about a new synthetic drug, which Gardaí believe was responsible for the death of a 16-year-old boy in Cork City earlier this month. Gardaí believe that Michael Cornacchia died as a result of taking a synthetic opioid called U-47700, after traces of the drug were found in…
UCC has been instructed by the Information Commissioner to provide details of support, financial or otherwise, it has received from Apple. Apple is one of the largest employers in Ireland, and the largest employer of graduates from UCC. The American company was at the centre of one of the most significant European state aid cases…
More than €560,000 is owed to the country’s seven universities, as well as the State’s largest institute of technology DIT, in library rental and late return fees alone, according to documents obtained by The Irish Times newspaper. Furthermore, they are owed more than €1.3 million of outstanding debt in Student Contribution Charges. UCC itself had approximately…
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has made a submission to the Strategy for the Rented Sector. The Strategy will provide a vision of the role that the rental sector will play in the short, medium and long terms, as set out in Rebuilding Ireland. USI believes that it is crucial that affordable and secure…
The Union of Students of Ireland (USI), in partnership with Drugs.ie and the HSE, have launched a new harm reduction information campaign aimed at people who use new psychoactive substances (NPS). This comes in response to a recently released European Schools Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD) that indicated that the use of psychoactive…
NUI Galway recently celebrated the success of a select group of first-year students with a special ceremony recognising the high points they achieved in their Leaving Certificate examinations. As part of the University’s annual Excellence Scholarships 60 students received €1,500 each. Each year the Excellence Scholarships are given to new NUI Galway entrants who got…