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.

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.

By Graham Clifford

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.

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

On the pavement outside my great-grandparents’ home in Vienna is the line, in twelve languages, “what happens when we forget to remember?”

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.

The lifting of the car ban on St Patrick’s St this week should not fool us.