Pride in UCC 2025

29 Jul 2025

The President’s Pride Lunch took place on Tuesday 29 July in the Hub Atrium as a collaboration between the EDI Unit and the LGBT+ Staff Network and with input from the UCCSU.

It is run annually as part of Cork Pride. This year’s Cork Pride motto is “A Fearless Future. Your Pride, Your Culture.” Well, we wanted to live up to that in UCC. Last year, we made murmurations. This year, courtesy of the LGBT+ Staff Network, attendees were invited to take part in making a Living Pride Quilt – a lovely initiative and a shared celebration of unity and pride and started this year to commemorate the 10th anniversary of both the Marriage Equality referendum and the Gender Recognition Act.

And don’t forget about the rest of the events happening this week as part of UCC’s involvement in Cork Pride this year, such as the UCCSU and the Bród Society will be holding a poster-making session on the evening of Friday, 1 August or the Pride Breakfast on the morning of the parade itself – Sunday 3 August, both events taking place in the Áine Hyland Room. And if you’d like to march with us in the parade, we’ll be meeting at our designated spot on the day from 1 p.m. – just pop your name down here to register your interest and come along to Grand Parade to walk proudly under the UCC banner.