By Ciara Browne – Deputy News Editor This Article includes insights and personal responses from Dr. Mark O’Sullivan – Lead Investigator. A research team led by University College Cork’s (UCC) Dr. Mark O’Sullivan in the INFANT Research Centre (Irish Centre for Maternal and Child Health) has been awarded funding by Enterprise Ireland to commercialise a medical…

By Orla Leahy – News Editor UCC Green Week 2022 ran last week, from March 7th to 11th inclusive. Maeve Richardson, Community & Engagement Officer of the Students’ Union (SU), has described Green Week as a “week of activism, initiatives, and campaigning by UCC students and staff to create a better world.”  The week kicked off…

Orla Leahy – News Editor The UCC Societies’ Executive hosts the STARS Awards Ceremony on an annual basis to acknowledge the outstanding drive, commitment and work ethic of UCC students from all disciplines within UCC Societies. UCC is home to over 100 societies, from charitable societies, to linguistic societies, to everything imaginable between. There is something…

By Orla Leahy, News Editor On Tuesday, February 8th, the UCC Economics Society held a panel discussion on Ireland’s Housing Crisis. The event was hosted by Chairperson of the Economics Society, Calum O’Donnell, and featured four distinguished guest speakers, including Counsellor Ms. Gillian Coughlan, the Lord Mayor of County Cork, Mr. Conor O’Connell, director of the…

Orla Leahy, News Editor The Intervarsity Law Summit, spearheaded and hosted by the University College Cork Law Society, took place in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork, from Friday, February 25th to Sunday, February 27th. It is the largest ever student-empowered law event. The inaugural Summit brought together all seven university law schools and law societies…

By Ciara Browne, Deputy News Editor COVID-19 has changed and impacted employment within Ireland and has affected the Irish population as a whole, including graduates of third level education. The Higher Education Authority collects, analyses and disseminates student and graduate related data returned to the HEA from all HEA-funded institutions annually. The HEA leads the strategic…

By Orla Leahy, News Editor Raise and Give (RAG) Week 2022, organised and facilitated by the UCC Students’ Union and UCC Ents, began yesterday, and remains in full swing until Friday. This year’s charity partners include the Sexual Violence Centre Cork, Cork City Missing Persons Search and Recovery, and Age Action South. UCC societies and clubs…

By Claudia M. Zedda: Opinion Editor  &  Ronan Keohane: Student Contributor   On behalf of the UCC Fáilte Refugees Society The UCC Fáilte Refugees Society, in collaboration with the University of Sanctuary Working Group, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit and many more, are currently organising an exciting and large series of events for the annual ‘Refugee…

By Ciara Browne, Deputy News Editor  University College Cork has launched the Speak Out Anonymous Reporting Tool which is a new online tool that will allow students and staff at UCC to anonymously report incidents of bullying, cyber bullying, discrimination, harassment, coercive behavior or control, assault, stalking, sexual harassment and assault, and rape. The tool was…

By Orla Leahy, News Editor  Bystander Intervention Week is set to take place at UCC from Monday, February 14th, to Friday, February 18th. The Bystander Team have stated that the week, “will highlight the issue of gender-based violence and sexual harassment both on and off university campuses.” The last Bystander Intervention Week on UCC’s campus saw…