R&G Week 2017 is well and truly on the horizon. It is an event-packed week, and one of the most anticipated weeks on social calendar for the college year. Let us not forget however – it is also about charity. The idea of Raise and Give week started as something that is about giving, a…
UCC Sinn Féin announced today that they would be collecting signatures from students with the aim of changing the Students’ Union’s stance on the question of Irish unity. Presently UCC Students’ Union does not have a formal position on reunification, and has not ran any campaigns on this issue in many years. The petition, put…
UCC has been instructed by the Information Commissioner to provide details of support, financial or otherwise, it has received from Apple. Apple is one of the largest employers in Ireland, and the largest employer of graduates from UCC. The American company was at the centre of one of the most significant European state aid cases…
A group known as ‘Yes Trees UCC’ are currently campaigning to add a new search engine programme to every Student IT Centre computer in UCC. The search engine, known as Ecosia, plants trees using revenue generated through advertising sold on the service. The campaign’s Facebook page received more than 50 likes within 24 hours of…
“I wish I could go back to college, life was so simple back then.” Oh, Avenue Q, you sum it up so perfectly… In the four years since I graduated from UCC, I’ve discovered one big fact about life: being a grownup sucks. There are never emails to cancel work, beans on toast every day…
More than €560,000 is owed to the country’s seven universities, as well as the State’s largest institute of technology DIT, in library rental and late return fees alone, according to documents obtained by The Irish Times newspaper. Furthermore, they are owed more than €1.3 million of outstanding debt in Student Contribution Charges. UCC itself had approximately…
Plans to build apartments for nearly 200 students near University College Cork have been approved. An Bord Pleanála have rejected the recommendation of their own inspector and upheld the decision by cork city council made last August to give planning permission for the development of Student flats for UCC students. The development is to be…
As the calendar year winds down, and we finish up work until January, it’s time to look back on 2016 and see what you, the reader, checked out most this year on UCCExpress.ie. The articles are ranked by page views. A special thanks goes out to all the writers, contributors and staff members who helped…
University College Cork has signed a €100 million loan agreement with the EIB (European Investment Bank) on Thursday (24thNov) which will support UCC’s €241 million development plan for the University. UCC President Dr. Michael Murphy welcomed the EIB delegation of senior officials to UCC, and announced that the loan will be used to fuel the…
Over the last number of years, November has become mental health month and each year sees the emergence of new initiatives surrounding mental wellbeing and illness. PleaseTalk and their partners have launched the annual ‘’Chats for Change’’ to encourage students to talk about their mental health. Recent studies have shown a 41% increase in third…