The UCC Express was last night nominated for an international award. The Student Publication Association National Conference Awards, also known as the SPANCs, have been awarded to student publications & their staff for the last five years. The majority of their entries come from across the UK and Ireland, with entries from prestigious publications like…
A new Officer Board of the Union of Students in Ireland has now been elected. It is the first Officer Board of USI to not have a UCC alumnus since 2011. UCC represents a key hustings to win, as UCC possess a large number of votes; this is reflected in the results below, as almost…
President Deputy President & Campaigns Officer VP for Commercial & Communications (Comms Officer) VP for Education (Education Officer) For a full playlist of these videos, you can click this link. These interviews were recorded on Thursday, March 2nd. At the time of recording we did not know who the Welfare Officer candidates were, as their…
The UCCSU Student Community Support Group was once again out on the streets aiding students during Raise and Give Week in UCC. This year the group expanded its engagement with students through a number of measures. Firstly, they added two additional routes to their patrol, allowing them to aid and engage with more students than…
Doom Eoin Doyle, Staff Writer 2016 was a pretty decent year for games. We got Final Fantasy XV after waiting 10 years, we got the sequel to my favourite game of the last 10 years in Dishonored 2 and we got the biggest surprise in gaming when ID Software released DOOM, after scrapping the original…
At the time of writing this we are about 24hrs removed from the Orlando shootings. I have tried to sum up how I feel in the wake of this massacre, this attack on the LGBT*Q community, even just to myself: to make sense of this all internally. The truth of this, however, is that there is…
Once planning permission is granted, work is due to to commence on the site of the old Windle Building. Architects O’Donnell + Twomey are designing a brand new student building, as laid out in the University Strategic Plan, which aims to deliver “research-inspired teaching and learning with a world-class student experience”. The state-of-the-art “Hub Building”…
Yesterday evening we reported, on our social media accounts, that UCC student & Cork City Councillor Stephen Cunningham was missing, and that Gardaí were appealing for information. Thankfully Stephen was found safely later that night. This morning Stephen has released a statement via Sinn Féin, which we will publish below: “Firstly, I would like to…
Earlier this month we saw the election of the incoming Student Union for the academic year 2016/17. Some of you won’t be around for the next year but most will, as such the Express has decided to print a breakdown of the elected candidate’s manifestos. To highlight some of the main talking points of these manifestos…
In years gone by a so called “War on Drugs” took place in many countries. The war, like most wars, was misguided and had more innocent casualties than it could have possibly intended. Although in this war the casualties were more often than not people simply trying to use drugs rather than what were stated…