...but at least the food wasn’t bad! UCC food and culinary expert, Regina Sexton has been able to recreate the diet available in 5^th century Ireland to a young saint-in-the-making.

A construction milestone has been reached at UCC Beaufort in Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, where Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources Alex White T.D. recently performed a 'topping out' ceremony.

Adult Continuing Education (ACE) at UCC and Mental Health Ireland have launched the new part-time Certificate Programme in Mental Health in the Community.

Novelist, academic and musician (Ruefrex) Thomas Paul Burgess will unveil two new books at UCC this Friday, 6 March at 5pm in the Staff Common Room. 

Art to Inspire is an exhibition of artwork by students enrolled in UCC’s Certificate in Contemporary Living running in the Glucksman until 1 March 2015.

Cork is a long way from the island city of Florianopolis in Brazil, but it has been an incredibly fruitful journey so far for three Brazilian neuroscience PhD students at UCC. 

A series of pamphlets on the Irish famine was launched by Cork University Press and Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in Dublin this week.

Oscar-winning Jeremy Irons will take part in a discussion following a free screening of ground-breaking environmental documentary ‘Trashed’ at UCC on Monday 23 February. 

As Raise & Give Week beings, the UCCSU and wider student body are aiming to make 2015 a record year for monies raised for a number of local and national charities. 

The celebrations of the George Boole bicentenary kicked off with the George Boole 200 Inaugural Lectures.  The media interest in the well-attended event is captured below on Storify.