“George Boole’s former home at Grenville Place in Cork City is now up for sale as an investment ‘site’. For €350,000 you can purchase this large city centre building which was once home to Queen’s College Cork’s first Professor of Mathematics …” (more)
[Eoin Lettice, Communicate Science, 22 February]
“The governing bodies of UCC and CIT are to be asked to attend the next meeting of Cork City’s Joint Policing Committee to answer allegations that they are not doing enough to counter the drink-fuelled antisocial behaviour of their students …” (more)
[Sean O’Riordan, Irish Examiner, 21 February]
“University College Cork has lost its legal challenge to a Labour Court order requiring it to pay a former full-time researcher, who was employed on a fixed term contract, an ex gratia redundancy payment in addition to her statutory redundancy entitlement …” (more)
[Mary Carolan, Irish Times, 18 February]
“University College Cork has lost its legal challenge to a Labour Court order, requiring it to pay a former full-time researcher on a fixed-term contract, an ex gratia redundancy payment in addition to her statutory redundancy entitlement …” (more)
[Ann O’Loughlin, Irish Examiner, 18 February]
“The Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) has warmly welcomed a High Court decision regarding redundancy payments for fixed-term workers in universities. In the High Court on 17 February, Mr Justice Kearns rejected an appeal by University College Cork (UCC) against an earlier Labour Court Determination …” (more)
[Irish Federation of University Teachers, 17 February]
“The High Court has rejected an appeal from University College Court over the terms of a lecturer’s redundancy package. The lecturer, who had come to the end of her fixed-term contract, has been awarded six weeks’ pay for every year of employment at the university by the Labour Court …” (more)
[Business Post, 17 February]
“University College Cork has lost an appeal to the High Court in a case dealing how staff on fixed-term contracts are treated. In a ruling issued this morning, the High Court upheld a Labour Court decision to direct the college to make an ex-gratia payment to a fixed-term worker who had been made redundant …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 17 February]
“Controversial UCC lecturer Dr Dylan Evans, previously found guilty of sexually harassing a female colleague, is being prosecuted by the DPP (Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions) for serious assault today …” (more)
[Brian Byrne, Cork Studenty.me, 13 February]
[For clarification, Dr Evans ceased to be a lecturer at UCC in August 2011]
“Public order arrests in Cork City are running at treble the normal rates during Rag Week at the university as residents complain that efforts to control antisocial behaviour are not working …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 10 February]
“Scientists at Trinity College Dublin are helping to develop a television screen that can be rolled up and put in your back pocket. They are also helping a brewing company build a better beer bottle …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 9 February]
“University College Cork has become the first institute of its type in Ireland to establish a research post in Buddhist studies …” (more)
[Olivia Kelleher, Irish Examiner, 6 February]
“UCC researchers have developed a taste-retaining low alcohol beer, and caught the attention of the interest of one of Europe’s leading brewers …” (more)
[Joe Dermody, Irish Examiner, 6 February]
“In University College Cork last year, Nobel Laureate, James Watson predicted that in the 21st century countries will only be as strong as their universities …” (more)
[Michael Murphy, Irish Times, 31 January]
“Rather than ban the debate or protest outside the venue, it is our duty to engage and challenge the likes of Nick Griffin, writes Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan …” (more)
[Irish Examiner, 27 January]
“The River Lee was compared to the river Ganges by a travel writer from India who visited Ireland 200 years ago. This historical description of Cork was cited yesterday when Indian students of University College Cork marked 82 years since their country’s declaration of independence with a reception at the college …” (more)
[Louise Roseingrave, Irish Times, 27 January]
“Freedom of speech is a fundamental plank of democracy. To deny anyone the right to express his or her views it to engage in censorship of the worst kind …” (more)
[Irish Examiner, 27 January]
“Almost 40 UCC academics last night welcomed the decision to withdraw an invitation to British far-right leader Nick Griffin to take part in a university debate on free speech …” (more)
[Eoin English, Irish Examiner, 26 January]
“As of Monday January 23rd, it has been announced that the invitation to British National Party leader, Nick Griffin, to speak at a UCC Government and Politics Society debate in February, has been withdrawn. Cork Against Fascism, a campaign group made up of students, staff and members of the public, which formed in response to the invitation to Griffin, welcomes this decision …” (more)
[Indymedia Ireland, 25 January]
“A spoonful of sugar, as any parent knows, helps the medicine go down — but it could also play a key role in preventing cancer and serious infections …” (more)
[Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Irish Examiner, 25 January]
“… As with earlier attempts to legislate truth, this is profoundly misguided. We must not meet intolerance with intolerance. We must persuade others to avoid the intolerant; but we must not ban the intolerant …” (more)
[Eoin O'Dell, Cearta, 24 January]
