A special meeting of the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Ireland was held at the NUI Offices in Dublin on 04 March 2026 to discuss ongoing initiatives across the network and the broader role of Ireland and Europe in advancing the 2023 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The meeting included several guests from the global SDSN community, including Professor Jeffrey Sachs, President of the SDSN Association, and María Cortés Puch, Vice President of Networks. The student voice was represented by Sumaya Mohommed (UCC) and Elizabeth Zion (UCD). 

UCC recently hosted the winner of the 62nd Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (YSTE). Aoibheann Daly’s winning project, titled GlioScope: Multi-task Deep Learning and Causal AI for Glioma & Glioblastoma Profiling, is an AI-powered diagnostic tool that analyzes MRI brain scans to identify genetic mutations in tumours.

President John O'Halloran was a member of the expert panel on Supporting Student Entrepreneurship and Spin-Outs at Third Level at the Scale Ireland Regional Start-Up Summit 2026. The panel explored ways to strengthen entrepreneurship support within third level education, and highlighted the importance of supporting student entrepreneurs and spin-outs for long term growth of Ireland's innovation ecosystem. 

An interdisciplinary, campus-wide team has come together to document UCC's journey to becoming the second most sustainable university in the world. This work interrogates the success factors that transformed UCC into a global sustainability leader and has now been published in the Journal of Sustainability Perspectives. 

President John O’Halloran welcomed H.E. Ms. Mariam Madiha Aftab, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Ireland, to UCC on Friday, 30 January 2026.

This week we were delighted to host a landmark conference in the Aula Maxima celebrating a century of radio in Ireland.