An iconic Cork institution is set to reopen. Plugd, which was originally opened in 2001 by Jim Horgan, is set to open upstairs in The Roundy on the corner of Daunt Square & Castle Street later this month. It had most recently operated a café and record store in the Triskel on Tobin Street, but…
If the headline is news to you, I’m sorry: it must be rough waking up for a 61-year coma. Doubly rough if your name is Ed Wood. If you’re a normal, young person in 2017, I probably need to explain that Bela Lugosi was a classic actor from the 20s and 30s, most famous for…
I went to Mass for the first time in ages a while ago. I genuinely cannot tell you the last time I went to Mass that wasn’t for Christmas, for a funeral or by accident. For international readers, particularly our American friends, I didn’t go to Massachusetts for random events throughout the years; Mass is…
Modern journalism & writing, combined with the proliferation of social media platforms like Twitter that promote brevity over anything, the more hyperbolic a statement typically the more successful that statement is, be it a Tweet, an article or something else. If someone were to suggest something was “okay” or “pretty good” on social media, unless…
The UCC LGBT Staff Network will be celebrating its 10th anniversary on October 12th in the Aula Maxima. The network, which was founded in 2007, was the first of its kind among any university or higher education institution in Ireland. Speaking at the launch, then-UCC President Dr.Michael Murphy noted that “where people do not feel that…
A UCC society is leading the campaign to make UCC a ‘University of Sanctuary’. UCC STAR Society, which was set up in January of this year, is working to officially make University College Cork a more welcoming place for refugees. In December 2016 DCU became the first Irish university to gain the distinction from the…
The Love Our Library green energy campaign was launched on the 4th September by UCC Library staff. The project began in January 2017 as an energy saving scheme, focusing on reducing energy consumption throughout the building, with any savings made being put back into the Library’s budget for sustainability project. One of the main focuses…
An image of a man marching with a t-shirt that bore a shamrock with the text “Gorm Chónaí Ábhar” below it. If you’ve been staying away from American politics for the last few years, you may be unaware of the Black Lives Matter group. Black Lives Matter, or BLM, is a group that protests against…
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….