Hello again friends! It’s about to be 2019 (jesus I’m old…) and that means it’s time to look back at what you’ve done in 2018, and to decide on if you want to be proud of what you accomplished or when you should really start apologising… But for the UCC-I mean…University Express… that means it’s…
We’re at the end of another year in the UCC Express newsroom, and just as the ball drops, the calendar turns and we head into 2018, we’ve decided to take a look back at the top read stories of 2017. All of the articles below were published in 2017, and are ranked by page views….
To pull the curtain back a bit, I always end up doing this last – not because they’re hard (they’re not), not because I don’t like doing them (I do) but because that’s just always how it ends up. I have to pour through around 50,000 words of mostly other people’s writing every fortnight, in…
UCC Medicine Student, and Express Fashion Editor, Kenneth Nwaezeigwe has been called up to the Irish Powerlifting team. The 22 year-old underwent trials in Athlone this September before receiving the call to lift for the Boys in Green. Speaking on the announcement, a cheerful Kenneth was ecstatic about the call-up, commenting that: “I’m excited and…
I’m going to take this opportunity to apologise to my immediate predecessor Brian (who will have graduated from his Masters the day before this comes out – if you actually read this Brian, congrats brother). All throughout last year I wasn’t quiet about my gripes with the workload as Designer of the paper, and the…
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, the Examiner’s…
[edge_animation id=”14″] [edge_animation id=”15″] By Kevin Hosford
Stephen Barry | News Editor On Wednesday night Alison Miller will board a chartered flight in Dublin, and set course for Pau in the South of France. She will arrive at the Pyrénéen airport that night, and settle down in her hotel room two days before her big game on Friday. It will be…
Almost two-thirds of grants have been paid to students already this year according to a statement by SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland), the single Awarding Authority for all new student grant applications. The system is well ahead of time compared to the multiple system failures it experienced last year. Grants have been paid to 39,000…
Tyndall National Institute’s new 5-year strategic plan outlined the UCC research centre’s aim to help create 500 new jobs by 2018. These jobs will come in high-tech start-ups, foreign multinationals coming to Ireland and already established Irish companies. The plans were unveiled by Minister for Jobs, Research and Innovation Richard Bruton, who used Tyndall as…