UCC Students’ Union have announced that they will be holding a music & culture festival on the 5th of October in the Docklands on Centre Park Road. The event, which will be held in the same tent as the famous ‘Live at the Marquee’ series of gigs, as well as Oktoberfest Beag the day after…
It was recently announced that former UCC Students’ Union Welfare Officer, and Union of Students in Ireland (USI) Welfare Officer Cian Power has been named as the new Student Budgetary Adviser. The Waterford native, who has previously been a member of the SUSI advisory committee, will succeed Evan Healy in the role after five years….
Oh my god has getting this issue out been exhausting. If you don’t like me or my writing, this mightn’t be the issue for you, because I am fucking everywhere in this thing (even where you wouldn’t expect me to be). Pretty much every random problem that could happen, has happened: laptops have crashed, deadlines…
Environmentally conscious search-engine Ecosia has recently announced that it has planted over 13 million trees all over the world, in places like Indonesia, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Peru and Burkina Faso. The browser uses revenue collected from advertising to plant trees and fund their projects, with their website stating that it takes 1.7 seconds of use to…
The Glucksman Gallery will be unveiling a public mural on Friday September 22nd in Fitzgerald Park. The unveiling will be part of Cork Culture Night, and will be on display for just over two months. The mural itself was painted by children & teenagers who live in Direct Provision as part of a project for…
Ellen Desmond is a UCC BA English and Psychology graduate, and former Editor-in-Chief of (the award-winning) Motley Magazine. After completing a publishing masters in Edinburgh Napier University, she started a publishing collective called ‘Monstrous Regiment’ with fellow publishing student, Lauren Nickodemus. Their first project is an anthology of essays & personal stories about bisexuality called…
Student accommodation complexes have been fully booked out, despite the majority of college places not being offered until late August. Round 1 CAO offers are not given out until August 21st, but all of the bigger student accommodation options have already been booked. University Hall, Victoria Lodge, Victoria Mills and Castlewhite Apartments, all of which…
The Everyman Theatre continues to be a beautiful place to take in the arts 120 years after its opening, even with some inopportune interruptions from traffic outside. The old MacCurtain Street theatre is currently putting on a production of Brian Friel’s classic play, ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’. I must admit my only previous exposure to Friel…
It was today announced that 62% of clients of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork in 2016 were students. The Centre, located on Camden Place just across the river from Patrick’s Street, released its annual report for 2016 today. The report contains statements from the Chairperson of its Board of Directors, Anne McCarthy, and from the Director…
It was a landmark day for Irish cricket this Sunday, though it would have been a landmark day regardless of the result. Just over one-hundred years ago, cricket would have been the most played game throughout the island, fifty years ago an amateur Irish team beat a soon-to-be dominant West Indies team on a dodgy…