What to Say Issue 6, 17/11/2015, Brian Conmy This week really sucked. As many of you may have seen or will see later in this issue, the Express received what amounted to a cry for help from a student experiencing mental health issues. While the person was responded to promptly thanks to the insane sleeping…
Why I Have Insomnia Issue 6, 17/11/2015, Robert O’Sullivan It’s not usual to have an editorial in the middle of the paper, but this is a situation that requires some unusual things. I asked Brian, the Editor, for this space to discuss the letter on the page opposite. You may well have read this before….
So This Is Christmas (or mid-November) Issue 6, 17/11/2015, Xander Cosgrave Yes here it is, the last issue of this semester’s Byline, and what an issue it is. God, did I just say that? All this festive cheer in November must be getting to me. Well to get you to start getting ready for next…
[dropcap style= boxed]A[/dropcap]lthough UCC has an assorted history of student publications, the UCC Express traces its origins back only 17 years. That corresponds to the first ever issue of the University Examiner on the 9th of October 1997, a publication which was founded by Fionnán Sheahan. Sheahan had been the penultimate Editor of the Gazette,…
What happens when we don’t speak up? Do you think a person has the right to complain after the fact if they did not take an action at the time that could have changed the outcome? This is a question that I and my friends have been pondering over for the past week. With…
“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.” ― Alan Dean Foster Procrastination: the putting off of things which should be done today until tomorrow. The problem with this is that tomorrow will be today tomorrow and so the vicious cycle begins. There will always, and I mean always, be…
It’s that time of year again: that frustrating time when all of your assignments are conveniently due on the same week. There are questions to decipher, reading lists to crawl through and, most crucially, a comprehensive and well-informed answer to construct. It can be pretty distressing but the key is not to let it all…
I write this with that niggling voice in the back of my mind which screams about college work. It keeps reminding me that I have an essay due and two exams to study for. This voice is easily silenced with alcohol, food, tv, the internet. It’s easy to ignore really is what I’m getting at….
It is a week for activism it seems with a national campaign of protests and demonstrations kicking off in Cork. The USI “Fed Up? Stand Up!” Campaign is covered in part, by Stephen Barry in this issue and yesterday’s protest is reviewed online at www.uccexpress.net. It seems that these are times for action on a…
Well well, here we are again. Another week, another paper. And what has happened since the last time we spoke? Well there was Halloween of course. All them tiny tiny outfits with those tiny tiny women squished into them. Those sexy sexy cats/mice/bunnies/pirates/wenches/witches/ladybugs/bumble bees. So much flesh. When I expressed my disquiet at all this…