When I arrived in Ireland last September, alone on my first trip to Europe, I was reminded of how, as a young Muslim girl growing up in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India, I was always discouraged from travelling alone. Using public transport was prohibited because it would have exposed me to public gaze and increased the chances of harassment by strangers. My mobility was curbed for my own safety, I was told. 

Irish figures who have influenced the cultural, intellectual, scientific and political landscape of Latin America are to be celebrated in a major exhibition which was opened by President Michael D. Higgins today.

British PM Theresa May’s long-awaited speech made it clear that immigration is central to British concerns.

Floods, ash clouds, and the recession were just some of the more challenging aspects of Dr Michael Murphy's 10-year term as President. 

Universities must have creative and innovative funding streams to support economic development in addition to state funding, according to the new President of University College Cork, Professor Patrick O’Shea.

The organising committee of the International Law and the State of Israel conference have informed UCC that they will host two of the three conference days in an off-campus location in Cork on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. 

Today FM presenter Matt Cooper and Press Ombudsman, Peter Feeney, are among the speakers set to appear atUCC Journalism Society’s conference this Thursday (February 9). 

Professor Fergus Shanahan, director of the APC Microbiome Institute at UCC, has been awarded the 2016 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal.

Professor Tony Lewis, a Principal Investigator in MaREI and Professor Emeritus at UCC, has been awarded the Chevalier des Palmes Académiques. 

A UCC researcher has won a prestigious international competition for his work in predicting seizures in the human brain through long-term EEG recordings.