When deciding which medicines, treatments, services and programmes to fund, the primary aim should be to reduce uncertainty about expected outcomes according to UCC health economist, Aileen Murphy.

Health professionals must prioritise assessing the mental and physical health problems among those bereaved by suicide, according to the Chief Scientist at the National Suicide Research Foundation (NSRF).

A thought-provoking new book series, with a UCC editorial team at the helm, will force readers to reimagine Ireland, from the law to interpersonal relationships.

By Graham Clifford

Staff from UCC Career Services have been highly commended at the Association of Higher Education Careers Services Awards for Excellence – Employability Award in Dublin recently.

University College Cork (UCC) generates €2.3 million per day for the Irish economy, according to a new report to be launched today (May 14).

An online project that will allow people to see how the famine affected their locality will be launched at the Annual National Famine Commemoration in Cork this Saturday, May 12. 

Famines are extreme events where people’s access to food is denied. The world had until recently almost abolished famines.

A replica of the mud hut, an bothán, in which the poorest of the poor lived and died during the famine has been recreated by UCC near the Quad.

The Great Famine, which occurred between 1845 and 1852, was neither the first nor the last of Ireland's famine experiences, but it was the most profound, and probably the most catastrophic event in modern Irish history.