Keyword "university-college-cork-ucc" - List of latest news (170 results)

22/04 Ardnacrusha at 100: What could happen if Ireland showed similar ambition today and invested 20% of national budget in energy? 

Spending €24bn on projects such as upgrading the grid and electrifying transport and heating could transform the nation

09/04 Feeder Schools: College progression rates updated after errors in data supplied by UCD and UCC

Coláiste Chiaráin in Leixlip, Co Kildare sent highest proportion of students to third level last year

03/04 Sunk costs in fossil fuel infrastructure could sink us

The greatest cost of new fossil fuel projects may be the missed opportunity to build clean energy

03/04 Misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories are not exclusive to the political right

From GM foods to nuclear power, there is no shortage of incorrect and harmful messaging on the left side of the spectrum

01/04 ‘Punch to the gut’: Students condemn potential €1,000 rise in third-level fees

Minister signals the €1,000 cut to third-level fees could be reversed this year

22/03 A mummy’s tale from Cork to Cairo: ‘It’s like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. His body represents us all’

A new book by the artist Dorothy Cross tells the remarkable story of Cecil, UCC’s Egyptian mummy, and his return home

18/03 Studying ‘pandemic babies’: Fewer allergies, but lower language skills

The Floral study will give researchers more vital data onthe effect of the pandemic on the microbiome, allergies and social development

18/03 Food on campus: Greasy college grub makes way for smart student-led initiatives

From the Galway pantry tackling food waste to breakfast clubs and training restaurants, campus dining is having a moment

10/03 Tara Brandel: ‘I am always analysing power dynamics in performance. Who holds privilege? How is it expressed?’

The Croí Glan choreographer explains why she believes in the power of dance to be an agent of change

03/03 How Donald Trump ripped up US climate action plans

At a Time of Climate Crisis: The US president has been making false and misleading claims on wind energy for nearly a decade

27/02 Climate experts warn Government against move to import LNG from US

Letter to Taoiseach follows his assertion Ireland ‘will have to have an LNG facility of some kind’

20/02 Water fluoridation to prevent tooth decay remains an important public-health strategy

Water fluoridation was introduced in the mid-20th century and is now a cornerstone of public-health policy in many countries, including Ireland

13/02 Critical thinking training can reduce belief in conspiracy theories, study by UCC psychologists finds

‘Well-established programmes to counter conspiracy theories have little or no effect’

06/02 How biochemistry and molecular biology gave the world insulin

Genetic engineering deployed to insert gene for human insulin into a bacterium, thus harnessing the substance for widespread use

01/02 Des Bishop: ‘I never felt the grief with my dad like I felt with my mother’

For the Irish-American comedian, lockdown was preceded by his mother’s death. The impact was profound – but it opened the way to a new life

30/01 Prolonged Storm Éowyn power cuts highlight the dire need to build our electricity resilience

If this storm erodes public confidence in electrification, it could lead to backtracking

16/01 Diversity, equality and inclusion programmes are inappropriate in university culture

New gender equity approach sacrifices equality of opportunity and primacy of scientific excellence, traditional cornerstone criteria for awarding grants

09/01 Hot school meals scheme: A ‘progressive’ government policy set to put children’s health at risk

Q&A with food analyst Ruth Hegarty: ‘We are institutionalising consumption of ultra processed food’

02/01 Why have women won so few Nobel Prizes?

Across the first half of the 20th century few women went on to third-level education and, of these, fewer took science degrees

02/01 ‘The records sought do not exist’: ‘Golden visas’ granted under €1.25bn scheme but no list of investment beneficiaries

Lack of even a basic list raises questions about how the scheme was monitored

02/01 Let’s get real: Ireland’s data centre boom is driving up fossil fuel dependence

At a time of climate crisis, the new Government has a choice to make between carbon budgets and economic growth at all costs

13/12 ‘What is the point of this rubbish?’: At Newstalk, the spirit of grumpy old men lives on in the unlikeliest places

Radio review: Breakfast host Ciara Kelly seems to court listeners who once complained about the PC brigade but now prefer to decry the woke mob

13/12 Radio review: At Newstalk, Ciara Kelly gets righteously annoyed

The breakfast host seems to court listeners who once complained about the PC brigade but now prefer to decry the woke mob

12/12 Decoding early signals to catch ovarian cancer sooner

Research Lives: Aideen McCabe, PhD student, University College Cork

11/12 The Irish Times view on data centres and climate: no more development without a renewables boost

Ireland’s ability to reach its legally binding CO2 reduction targets by 2030 would be fatally undermined by the continued growth of data centres

10/12 Data centre boom under AI growth in Ireland threatening climate targets, report warns

Friends of the Earth calls for ‘moratorium on new data centres and expansion of existing ones until robust legislative framework is in place’

05/12 Electrification is Ireland’s missing climate link

Electrification is the bridge between Ireland’s renewable energy potential and its climate commitments

05/12 How 485 million years of Earth’s temperature history reveals climate tipping points and extinction risks

At 13.9 degrees, there is much scope for Earth’s surface to get a lot warmer, as demonstrated by new study on its temperature history

27/11 TU Dublin appoints senior civil servant as next president

University aims to return to financial sustainability following €8.6m deficit and falling student numbers

25/11 Grade inflation falls at Irish universities following concern over integrity of degrees

Fewer students awarded first-class degrees but proportion of high achievers is 40% higher than in 2015

25/11 Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music: Stellar capture of irrepressible force of nature

Rich collection of essays, poems and reflections on a visionary who breathed life into Ireland’s musical tradition

23/11 Food historian Regina Sexton: As an island of farmers, we have moved far away from food production

Cork-based food historian on the exploitation of young people’s good intentions, her home city’s food links to slavery and the importance of oats

21/11 Carl and Gerty Cori: a Nobel Prizewinning husband and wife team

Prague-born couple Carl and Gerty advanced knowledge of how the body produces and stores energy. They shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for this work.

11/11 Ireland not acting aggressively enough to hit climate targets – UCC study

Report warns not cutting emissions risks greater long-term costs, stranded assets, and dependence on unproven carbon removal technologies after 2030

09/11 Tributes paid to ‘outstanding’ Cork historian Gabriel Doherty after his death at 56

Doherty was best known for his written works on Michael Collins, Terence McSwiney and the Irish Civil War

29/10 University open days: when they take place and what makes each university unique

Key details about 2024-2025 open days for UCC, UCD, TCD, UL, Maynooth University, University of Galway, DCU and RCSI

26/10 John Creedon: ‘I was always being sent away, not because they didn’t love me, but because they couldn’t cope’

Broadcaster and author reflects on an unusual childhood in Cork, constant low-level anxiety and presenting Winning Streak without understanding the rules

05/10 Atlas of the Irish Civil War. New Perspectives: History presented with imagination and innovation

Issues raised in third volume of historical series are at core of concerns still with us today

04/10 A climate change paradox: instead of worrying about not being seen as moral enough, politicians don’t want to appear too moral

A study among UK MPs found many feared being seen as zealots - but has an Irish TD found a better way?

03/10 Ireland’s fossil fuel usage peaked in 2008, but do we have the will to end it?

Climate change science shows us that meeting our energy needs by burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide

03/10 Intermittent short bursts of exercise dramatically improve your health

Latest discovery represents most exciting and important health news announced for some time

30/09 ‘The cost of living is so high’: What a renter, a landlord, a pensioner, a carer and a wheelchair user want from Budget 2025?

‘It was alright before my husband died. But on my own, coming into the winter, I am worried’

23/09 Órla O'Donovan: ‘What’s up with the dude wall?’ Rows of portraits of men should have no place in Irish institutions

The problem with academic portraiture is that it sustains the myths of meritocracy and obscures privilege

20/09 Victim of Tuskar Rock air crash awarded posthumous degree by UCC

Michael Cowhig had submitted thesis to UCC shortly before tragedy in which 61 died

20/09 Graduate programme: ‘My work placement provided an excellent transition’

Leah Carroll studied engineering in UCC before joining the Irish Distillers Internship programme

19/09 Happiness is not considered to be an important goal in some cultures

Some researchers have found that striving to achieve happiness leads to thinking that time is scarce, which produces unhappiness

17/09 Paschal Donohoe on Atlas of Finance: Wonderful illumination of our economies and histories

Dariusz Wójcik’s book maps and visualises brilliantly an analysis of millions of financial data points

09/09 ‘There is no safety there’: Irish health workers lay bare their experiences in the West Bank

'It’s a trauma-manufacturing machine what’s happening – not just Gaza, but in the West Bank too'

07/09 Conor O'Mahony: Every child who experienced sexual abuse in schools should be compensated

Redress is owed to those people now; it has been owed to them for over 10 years already. It need not and should not wait until the completion of any Commission of Investigation Report

05/09 Should we treat greenhouse gas emissions like smoking?

At a time of climate crisis: It’s not about saving the planet — but about saving ourselves

28/08 Most third-level colleges increase on-campus accommodation costs for coming year

Students face sometimes ‘chaotic and claustrophobic’ shared spaces and rising prices countrywide

27/08 Coalition making progress on climate commitments but still has ‘a long way to go’

Latest Friends of the Earth report card concludes ‘programme for government commitments were not strong enough in first place’

15/08 Multivitamin supplements are little more than expensive placebos

The average person eating a balanced diet is in no need of vitamin supplementation

13/08 IBD: ‘I started the whole series of really mortifying, really embarrassing experiences’

Despite more than 40,000 people in Ireland living with inflammatory bowel disease, it is still not widely spoken about

13/08 The Cable That Changed the World: A bit like a double history lecture on a hot day

Television: Even narrator Jessie Buckley sounds as if she’s ready to check out. On a Monday night on RTÉ, this documentary is a bit of a snooze

11/08 Man who tried to kill Hitler remembered by Irish relatives

UCC’s Andy Bielenberg says family are ‘very proud’ of Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg for part in plot

10/08 Puffins on the Saltee Islands are thriving again. There’s now an obvious next step

Ella McSweeney: With the rat menace addressed, the question now is how to protest puffins’ nests from another threat - tourists

01/08 Co-discoverer of nuclear fission Lise Meitner unfairly overlooked by Nobel Prize committee

Worst example ever of blatant sexism and racism by the committee, claim critics

01/08 Why net-zero does not go far enough

At a Time of Climate Crisis: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is not enough – we will also have to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere

19/07 Chemotherapy combination highly successful in curing testicular cancer, research finds

Testicular cancer is diagnosed in about 170 men in Ireland every year

10/07 Great white sharks in Ireland? International team seeks confirmation in survey of Irish waters

‘The temperature and food options for them are ideal, so we think it’s just a matter of time before we find one here,’ says expedition leader

08/07 Operation of privacy rule in family law cases to be examined by new independent study

Parents with direct experience of family courts asked to take part in anonymous online survey

04/07 Are universities an obstacle to climate action by reinforcing the status quo?

Research has found universities play a key role in perpetuating unsustainability and are increasingly being run as businesses

04/07 Near-death experiences open the door to the nature of consciousness

Scientists no longer question the reality of NDEs, viewing them as unique mental states offering novel insights into the nature of consciousness

27/06 Keep your distance: Saltee islands seabirds feel the effects of human intrusion on their habitat

The islands off Wexford’s coast attracting droves of summer visitors but this could be putting puffin and gannet populations under strain

25/06 Where comic books meet healthcare: ‘We recognise that we need to communicate in different ways’

A conference in Athlone will highlight how comics can be a powerful way to explain and understand illness and cure

13/06 Number of Independents doubles in 15 years as public tire of traditional parties

Lack of alternative parties means Independent candidates attracting disaffected voters

06/06 Carbon emissions from aviation can’t be swept under the carpet

At a time of climate crisis sustainable aviation fuel is a long way off, while industry figures don’t count flight emissions

30/05 Tracking bacteria as they trek from gut to gut

Research Lives: Dr Hilary Browne, senior lecturer, School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork

22/05 Irish consumers want more sustainable food but not to pay for it, UCC survey finds

Research into market behaviour launched to coincide with annual food and beverage finance summit in Cork

16/05 Children’s mental health under attack by the smartphone

Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes are implemented in a spirit of political correctness and woke

15/05 Inflammatory bowel disease: ‘I remember being in primary school and thinking maybe if I skip breakfast, my stomach won’t hurt’

IBD increases as societies move from less-refined traditional diets to more processed foodstuffs

14/05 Major part of €104m package to be used to scale-up research on neurological diseases in Ireland

Minister for Agriculture declines to comment on investigation of Science Foundation Ireland chief executive Prof Philip Nolan

14/05 ‘Well how are you going to get a job with a degree like that?’

Social sciences seek to understand how people interact with each other, how society functions and how cultures develop

13/05 Lecturers ‘under pressure’ to pass foreign students due to financial concerns

Irish universities have become increasingly reliant on lucrative international students to plug holes in their finances despite concerns about their English language proficiency

07/05 Trinity students’ union vows to continue protest until all demands regarding Israeli ties are met

Students at University College Cork threaten to escalate action if similar demands are not met

02/05 Batteries are vital to ending fossil fuel dependence

At a Time of Climate Crisis: This revolution has been made possible by big strides in battery technology, which has driven down the cost, weight and size of batteries

30/04 Cork Con’s James Taylor on AIL win over Terenure: ‘This is the pinnacle’

Taylor delivered a man-of-the-match performance in an unlikely win, as the Munster side played most of the game with a numerical disadvantage

29/04 How many people died violent deaths in the Irish Civil War?

Two historians have come up with as definitive a figure as can be estimated

29/04 Sharp rise in first-class degrees may be linked to student expectations and competition among universities

50% jump in top degrees awarded by universities since 2015 prompts concern over grade inflation

28/04 Is ‘wokeness’ really the new religion? I find that hard to believe

Crucially, by comparing one’s opponents to dogmatic zealots, it becomes unnecessary to engage with them

23/04 Dutch academic fired by UCC after struggling to find housing awarded €300,000

Third highest pay out ever made at WRC granted to economist Dr Wim Naude, who said his career had been ‘ruined’

22/04 Dutch academic fired by UCC after struggling to find housing awarded €300,000

Third highest pay out ever made at WRC granted to economist Dr Wim Naude, who said his career had been ‘ruined’

18/04 How scientists detected differences in the brains of men and women for the first time

Stanford researchers’ breakthrough has not been universally welcomed

04/04 Data centres are a serious threat to Ireland’s carbon budgets

Eighteen per cent of Irish electricity was consumed by data centres in 2022, as much as all urban homes, making the country an outlier

26/03 Cerebral palsy: What is it, who gets it and what does the future hold?

The symptoms of cerebral palsy vary from person to person. Many have related conditions including seizures, problems with vision, hearing or speech

24/03 Climate change: ‘How can we feed the world while not damaging it?’

Is Ireland’s new climate action plan the blueprint needed to transform the country within decades?

24/03 UCC believes its deficit will deepen to €23m this year without cost-cutting measures

Staff told expenditure on new mobile phones, IT, stationery or furniture should ‘not be progressed at this time’

21/03 The credibility crisis in science

We are in the middle of an epidemic of scientific fraud that is seriously compromising research

16/03 Metropolitan bubble: Referendum fallout for Irish politics and wider society

Does last week’s anti-establishment revolt contain the seeds of a change?

15/03 What I learned: How a postgrad helped my career

The range of postgraduate options has never been broader. We asked a number of postgrads how they fared

12/03 Returning to college? Here are funding options to help cover the costs of your postgrad or MBA

Research your funding options well before starting your application for postgraduate studies

07/03 Cost of fossil fuel dependence has never been so high

Climate Crisis: We must focus on the value not the initial cost of change

07/03 Remaining illness-free as the human lifespan continues to increase

New discipline of geroscience aims to postpone the onset of diseases and disabilities that can make old age miserable

05/03 Cerebral Palsy: ‘It is tough hearing that news, but it is far tougher when you have to fight for the best care for your child’

The Irish Cerebral Palsy Foundation’s programme of excellence aims to achieve diagnosis within three months

15/02 Political correctness now a bullying tactic aimed at stifling legitimate debate

Science explains how the natural world works. PC views, however, are more aspirational, setting out how the world should be, according to their adherents

11/02 Future Irish cities: Tomorrow’s Dublin or Limerick will be clean and green, not noisy and grey

We need more than apologetically modest green visions when reimagining our towns and cities

02/02 Students from Trinity College and Kings Inns universities secure places in Irish Times debate final

The final is due to take place at UCD’s Astra Hall on February 22nd, chaired by Chief Justice of Ireland Donal O’Donnell

01/02 The Milky Way Galaxy – our home in the universe

New satellite data will reframe our understanding of this fascinating collection of stars

01/02 Climate denial is finding stealthier ways to extend its influence

In this era of climate upheaval, urgent remedial action requires limiting of high-carbon sectors, not their expansion

29/01 UCC reveals €11.2m deficit as it seeks to ‘return to sustainable financial position’

University president tells staff a comprehensive plan is in place to achieve a surplus

25/01 Oral microbiome becoming prime focus of research over links to disease beyond the mouth

Keeping your teeth and gums healthy could have far-reaching impacts reducing risks associated with diabetes, dementia, heart disease and some cancers

18/01 ‘Today’s graduates can walk in anywhere in the world’: NUI chancellor Maurice Manning steps down after 15 years

More than a quarter of a million graduates will be entitled to vote in the election of his successor later this year

15/01 Most complete visual record of Ireland in map form acquired by State

Bonar Law Collection comprises close to 10,000 maps and approximately 9,000 prints

11/01 First winners of femtech innovation call announced

Health Innovation Hub Ireland will provide further support to companies developing products that cover menopause, fertility and bladder health

08/01 If world is to decarbonise, climate policy must be just and deploy new framework, researchers suggest

Climate justice is about ‘how we transition to cleaner ways of living, different impacts on various groups of people’

08/01 UCC medtech NeuroBell announces spin-out with €2.1m funding round

Start-up has developed a pocket-sized brain monitor to detect seizures in newborn babies after traumatic births

07/01 Student has ‘no option’ but to commute between Germany and Ireland due to gap in disability support

Evelyne Cynk (35) says her right to freedom of movement as an EU citizen is not being upheld

04/01 Hope in the face of climate change

At a Time of Climate Crisis: Those who declare ‘we’re all doomed’ are as counterproductive to climate action as those who deny the problem exists at all because the future is all to play for

30/12 Translation: We live with nonsense placenames thanks to poor adaptation from Irish to English

Road signs and town names are often the result of careless linguistic vandalism which masks or confuses the original nomenclature

21/12 An eye to scientific research developments in 2024

As we draw to the end of 2023 we ask researchers from various disciplines about what we can expect next year

07/12 Two degrees is too high for ice sheets, permafrost and glaciers

At a Time of Climate Crisis: We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice

03/12 No, Cop28 is not going to solve climate change. But neither is cynicism

A member of the UCC delegation at Cop28 explains why the group is attending the controversial climate summit in Dubai

27/11 ‘Very worrying’ that UAE could use Cop28 host role to strike oil deals – Mary Robinson

Timed phase-out of fossil fuels needed, and should be progressed at climate summit, conference told

22/11 UCC-based expert in gut health named SFI researcher of the year for 2023

UL scientist wins award for development of crystals for use in medical implants and drug-delivery devices

15/11 ‘One second over and you’re disqualified’: Students compete in Ireland’s first ‘three-minute thesis’ final

Eight PhD researchers compete against the clock to distil their niche findings into bite-sized presentations

06/11 Climate change: The great contradiction in Ireland’s response to a warming world

Despite progressive climate policies and impressive renewable energy use, why do we rank 21st out of 27 countries on climate change?

02/11 William Reville: We must defend our academic freedom or we will lose it

Freedom of speech and thought are essential to the principles of education and our universities must reflect that

31/10 UK steps up effort to secure global co-operation on AI with two-day summit

By 2025, AI is expected to help create ‘faster-paced, more effective and larger scale’ cyber-attacks

23/10 What the first comedian to be cancelled teaches us about greed, taxes and relationships

Unthinkable: The Roman philosopher Cicero can help reset your moral compass amid capitalist forces

13/10 Mental health issues should be a greater priority in workplaces - report

Research cites figures suggesting more than $1 trillion in productivity is lost annually due to mental health issues

05/10 ‘Car bloat’ is driving climate change and making roads less safe

At a time of climate crisis: Time to tackle autobesity, the phenomena whereby cars are heavier and consequently use more fuel

28/09 Colleges’ capacity to deliver skilled graduates is ‘stretched to the limit’, warn university presidents

Government told rising student-staff ratios threaten education quality in a sector facing a €600m financial shortfall

27/09 Why are college dropout rates on the up?

Disconnection, isolation and exam inexperience among factors behind increase, say academics

21/09 Africa’s climate-vulnerable people are resilient but need support, says Concern ambassador

UCC student Dearbhla Richardson says the requests of communities are not unreasonable

21/09 Is it time to assess sustainability and nutritional value of food in tandem?

Making relatively straightforward adjustments to the typical Irish diet could make a big difference to the environment

12/09 ‘There are three little words I use all the time with my students. I frequently hear them back, too’

Despite its absence from my classroom, the notion of ‘punishment’ clearly features heavily in students’ lives

07/09 Science, tech, engineering and maths degrees will not take over university education

Increasing recognition that graduates from arts/humanities are also employable in the tech sector for various reasons

07/09 Death announced of leading historian and prolific author Prof Dermot Keogh (78)

Former journalist wrote acclaimed biography of Jack Lynch. becoming Emeritus Professor of History at UCC

05/09 Are you colour blind but don’t know it? UCC students to get glasses for ‘neglected’ condition

One in 12 men and one in 200 women suffer from some form of colour vision deficiency but many are unaware of it

04/09 ‘Ground-breaking tech’ developed in Cork could treat drug-resistant epilepsy

Device may ‘pave the way’ for use of technology in treatment of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

04/09 Report card on Government’s climate change warns of failure to meet some key commitments

Friends of the Environment report gives Coalition government a ‘moderate progress’ assessment

02/09 ‘I wasn’t even that stressed about the Leaving Cert, I was more stressed about trying to find accommodation’

The possibility of finding affordable accommodation is, in some cases, determining which CAO options students select

30/08 CAO round one: Tens of thousands to receive offers with half of applicants expected to secure first choice

CAO offers: Estimated 80 per cent of college applicants will likely secure one of their top-three course preferences

29/08 My friend phoned from the airport saying ‘the Taliban is on its way. Pack your bags, life has ended for us’

New to the Parish: Manizha Khan came to Ireland from Afghanistan in 2021

24/08 Leaving Cert results: How to get into college outside the CAO points race

Leaving Certificate isn’t the be-all and end-all. Most colleges have alternative admission routes not based solely on an accumulation of CAO points

10/08 Cracking the conversations between brain and gut

Research Lives: Dr Linda Katona, research fellow, University College Cork

03/08 Green hydrogen: Cause for hope or hype?

In the rush to decarbonise our energy supply, Ireland should proceed with caution before committing to hydrogen

01/08 Large class sizes, reduced support, precarious work: impact of third-level recruitment restrictions

Simon Harris says recruitment of 1,500 staff will lower student-staff ratios in colleges

01/08 Accommodation fees rise in most Irish universities

Cheapest private room in UCD has increased to €7,767 for coming year

22/07 Ireland’s solar revolution: the country’s fastest-growing renewable power source is having a profound impact

Even a dull Irish day can deliver significant quantities of solar power, while thousands of homes can feed excess electricity from their installations onto the grid and get paid for it

20/07 The western world is besieged by criticisms - academics must be free to investigate

Powerful new pressures, such as ‘wokeism’ and cancel culture, should not be allowed to stifle scrutiny or debate

08/07 Rare native plants at risk from Ireland’s changing climate, researchers show

Species at risk include spring vetch, wood crane’s bill, nettle-leaved bellflower and mackay’s heath

07/07 CergenX raises €1.2m in funding to develop newborn brain screening

Cork-based medtech raised money from private investors and Enterprise Ireland

03/07 What do university performance rankings really mean?

Seven Irish universities rose in recent international rankings but such indicators seen as a ‘joke’ by some

30/06 UCC announces European Investment Bank to provide €50m for business school development

Planning permission for new third level school in Cork city centre was granted last month

29/06 Summer reads for the science-inspired

Time to wrap your brain around some books — we asked scientists for their recommended seasonal reads

28/06 Superconductor breakthrough at UCC could be significant for future of quantum computing

Scientists confirm crucial characteristic of new material which could open way to functional quantum computers

26/06 International security forum more open-minded than critics claim

The discussions to date have proved an opportunity for a wide-ranging discussion

25/06 Number of students from Republic studying in North ‘triples’, with many citing cheaper accommodation

First-year students guaranteed campus accommodation in some universities, while also being eligible for student loans

22/06 Key forum speaker rejects President Higgins’s ‘intemperate’ comments on Irish foreign policy

Prof Brigid Laffan said that President Higgins was 'Intemperate' in his language and managed to insult our EU neighbours, Latvia and Lithuania with his comments

22/06 Ireland will need more international co-operation to fend off security threats, say experts

The opening session of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy in UCC was overshadowed by anti-war protesters

22/06 Think what’s going on in the gig economy has nothing to do with you? Think again

Unthinkable: More and more of us are working for algorithms – and losing some of our rights in the process, says UCD researcher Dr Lorenzo Cini

20/06 Ireland to draw up policy on returning historical artefacts to their countries of origin

Thousands of objects acquired while Ireland was part of the British Empire remain in Irish museums

20/06 Higher temperatures and more frequent warm summer nights predicted for Ireland - Met Éireann

Translate project provides unique climate projections to support climate adaptation and mitigation

17/06 Land loan to UCC will ensure Ireland stays ahead of the field in sustainable farming, says Tánaiste

Munster Agricultural Society to make two-acre site at Curraheen available to UCC researchers and make a donation of €379,000

15/06 UCC student’s research overthrows long-held theory on leaf patterns

Spirals are common in plants and most can be described by the famous mathematical series the Fibonacci sequence

15/06 Climate science shows we have options, and that we can and must change

The future is not prescribed, and fatalism is not an option

13/06 Data centres Q&A: How big a drain are they on Ireland’s energy grid?

A typical large data centre near the M50 is probably consuming as much electricity as Kilkenny city

08/06 Former Fine Gael senator Paul Coghlan dies aged 79

Kerry politician was Leas Chathaoirleach of the Seanad between 2016 and 2020

04/06 Eirgrid chief confident about avoiding legal challenges to planned substations

Eirgrid plans to build substations off Cork and south east to facilitate the development of wind farms by 2030

01/06 The trouble with renewable diesel

Is ‘renewable diesel’ the climate saviour or a life raft for the liquid fuels industry?

01/06 Irish economy powering ahead, and with it greenhouse gas emissions

New CSO data indicates only modest decoupling of rising emissions from increasing economic activity since 2010 - with the latter forging ahead while overall Irish emissions continue to rise.

28/05 How did a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy end up in Galway?

An artist hopes to return a mummy - given to UCC in 1928 - from Ireland to Egypt with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs

26/05 Dr O’Donovan: Olympic gold medal rower graduates in medicine

Cork man attributes sporting and academic success to `cracking on with things’ rather than overthinking

26/05 Unusually large numbers of jellyfish being washed up on Irish shores

Barrel jellyfish, resembling ‘cauliflowers’ and normally seen in southeastern waters, are being recorded almost halfway around the Irish coastline

22/05 ‘Live life to the full,’ says Ireland’s oldest woman on her 109th birthday

Máirín Hughes remembers the Spanish Flu in 1918 and Black and Tans patrolling in Dublin during War of Indpendence

13/05 Skin patch developed with UCC researchers helps ease peanut allergy symptoms in toddlers

A new treatment could be on the horizon for the most common food allergy in Europe

09/05 Social sciences: a good way to get a better understanding of the world

A degree in social science can give students the skills and knowledge to understand and critically analyse complex social issues

09/05 Environmental science is key to developing sustainable solutions

Challenges facing the Earth require an understanding of relationship between natural environment and human activity