The 40th UCC Sports Star Awards took place last night at The River Lee Hotel, celebrating the remarkable achievements of UCC athletes and teams. Sponsored by The River Lee Hotel in association with the Bank of Ireland, the gala dinner honoured 16 outstanding athletes and coaches, representing one of the most competitive fields in recent years.

Olympic rower Margaret Cremen was named Supreme Sports Star of the Year following an incredible 2024 season. She secured a silver medal in the LW1x at the European Championships and, alongside Aoife Casey, finished fifth at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Rocking their funky socks, staff and students gathered from all over the university, along with VIP guests from the Down Syndrome Centre Cork, to mark World Down Syndrome Day 2025

World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), 21 March, is a global awareness day which has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012. The date for WDSD being the 21st day of the 3rd month was selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which causes Down syndrome.

The id+ Futures team and students are so proud of our olympian, Joseph “Joe-Joe” Sheehan, a student on the Certificate in Social Citizenship. Joe-Joe is representing Ireland as part of the Irish Floorball Team at the Special Olympics Winter Games currently being held in Turin, Italy.  He already has an impressive medal haul of four golds, three silvers, and two bronzes across regional and Ireland Games and also plays golf and football. We wish Joe-Joe and the team all the best.

The Team Ireland Floorball team are playing with skill, heart, determination and team spirit through the divisional matches so far and we wish them all the best of luck on their journey.  

A man of the match performance by Joseph “Joe-Joe” Sheehan versus Switzerland, helped secure a bronze medal for Team Ireland's floorball team following an incredible campaign. Big congratulations to all involved. 

Visitors from UNIC universities Erasmus University Rotterdam, Malmö University and Ruhr University Bochum formed part of a 250-strong delegation of attendees at the European University Association (EUA) Learning and Teaching Forum 2025, hosted by University College Cork on February 27th and 28th.

The Deputy President and Registrar, Prof. Stephen Byrne, welcomed the UNIC colleagues to campus for the event at a short reception also attended by the Vice President for Teaching and Learning, Prof. Paul McSweeney.

Bystander Intervention week was celebrated in UCC and across the HE sector this week.

Led by Prof Louise Crowley and Celine Griffin, staff and students engaged with a range of events including staff and student workshops, information stands, engagement with our community partners and a staff insight session to enhance student and staff take up of the training. On Wednesday more than 400 students attending the Information stand, committed to engaging with the Bystander training over the coming months. 

Tá síneadh cúig bliana curtha lena Meamram Comhthuisceana ag Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh agus Coláiste na Rinne. Tá an Meamram seo tar éis bonn a chur fé imeachtaí mac léinn UCC i nGaeltacht na nDéise le tamall de bhlianta, fochéimithe, iarchéimithe agus mic léinn idirnáisiúnta. 

On February 5th, the SOAR Project and TU Dublin hosted a very successful workshop to mark the launch of our research report Students with Care Experience and Higher Education: “Progression in life despite my circumstances”.

The UCC Safe and Sound project held a Staff Soapbox event on January 23^rd 2025 in the Dora Allman. Safe and Sound is a year-long campaign that works with the UCC community and external collaborators to create media and organise events that foster awareness of issues around sexual violence and harassment. Safe and Sound aims to make sure everyone in the UCC community is included, from students to staff. The Soapbox event was an opportunity to highlight the work of the project to staff and for speakers to talk about the work they are doing that is already contributing to making our campus safer and more sound.