UCC Tennis club are off to a swinging start this semester. With the committee placing great importance on fundraising this year, the club got the ball rolling with a series of fundraisers in aid of Breast Cancer Ireland. The first of these was “Set for a Cure,” a two-day tournament held on the weekend…
Old Crescent 20-27 UCC Following a 27-20 victory over a stubborn Old Crescent side UCC’s men’s rugby team advanced to the semi-final of the Munster Senior Cup. UCC set the pace early on, needing just sex minutes to open up a 10 point lead. Fly-half Sean Óg Murphy followed up on a penalty with a…
Film Editor Rob O’Sullivan highlights why cricket doesn’t deserve the stick it gets from an Irish audience… “The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity” said Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Cricket is a game played between two teams of upstanding gentlemen who must wear…
C & S UCC Demons 88- 76 DCU Saints On Sunday, October 20, the C & S UCC Demons squared off with the DCU Saints, hoping to maintain their undefeated run, and place themselves in a tie at the top of the table. Despite entering the match with two wins from two games, UCC began…
There have been a number of warnings in the past fortnight to students who use bicycles to commute to and from campus. Barrack Street based retailer, the Bike Shed reported that 5 or 6 bikes were stolen in one go on the weekend of the 19th and 20th of October around campus. The Bike Shed…
Professor Brian Burdekin, visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and International Law and a leading international Human Rights authority, is to address the UCC International Relations (IR) Society next Friday. Burdekin, who lectures in the postgraduate programme in the Melbourne University Law School, was Federal Human Rights Commissioner for Australia from…
Last week saw the election of both the Postgraduate and International Rights Officers to the Students’ Union in UCC. Both non-sabbatical roles were highly contested, with each competitor working hard to prove why they should be elected to the Union. The Postgraduate elections took place Wednesday last, the 30th of October. Both contenders for the…
The School of History at UCC is hosting a major international conference on the life of Pope John Paul II next Saturday. Present in Boole 4 will be a range of expert speakers from Ireland and Poland who will address various aspects of the late Pope’s career. The late Pope, who is due to be…
UCC advance lawsuit against ESB The case brought by UCC against the ESB for flood damage caused to its buildings will be heard next summer. The damage was caused in November 2009 during exceptionally heavy flooding in Cork city that month. UCC is seeking €18m in compensation, claiming that ESB was acted negligently by releasing…
The annual Guinness Jazz Festival started and ended on a high note from the 25th to the 28th of October last, with an estimated 40,000 attending events. A renowned tourist attraction and a much welcomed economic boost for the city to tune of €15m, the ‘Jazz Weekend’ saw Cork bustling with buskers, blues and beer….