UCC will host a gala screening of A Doctor’s Sword, which centres on the extraordinary life of graduate Dr Aidan MacCarthy, on 6 August ahead of the film's cinema release.

Thousands attended the State commemoration for the centenary of the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in Glasnevin Cemetery  at which UCC’s historian Gabriel Doherty was interviewed for the RTÉ 9pm News.

Áine Ryall, School of Law, has been appointed Vice-Chair of the An Bord Pleanála Review Group.  

Emerging entrepreneurs from 25 European nations have just completed the first phase of the UCC-led EU-XCEL European Virtual Accelerator programme and now intend to conquer an array of ICT fields globally.

UCC hosted a Horizon 2020 Industry Leadership Information Day to help companies seize the opportunities that Horizon 2020 provides and support the development of their R&D ambitions through collaboration with University researchers.

An Post’s new 70c stamp marking the centenary of Pádraig Pearse’s historic speech at the graveside of O’Donovan Rossa was unveiled today in Rosscarbery, Co Cork by John Whelpley, great-grandson of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.

EirGrid, the operator of the national electricity grid, has awarded its annual prize to UCC’s top Masters graduate in Sustainable Energy.

In 1863, O’Donovan Rossa held a torchlit parade in solidarity with a Polish uprising against their Russian occupiers known as the January Rebellion which was re-enacted in Skibbereen recently.

A yogurt to help people live longer is just one of the projects being developed as part of IndieBio hosted by the School of Microbiology, UCC.  See media round up on Storify.  

IndieBio, the world’s first and only synthetic biology accelerator programme is again underway in the School of Microbiology, UCC with start-ups from around the world, relocating to Ireland especially for the programme.