A Garda operation has been mounted in parts of Cork’s northside after tyres were slashed on cars displaying pro-choice stickers.

Student internships at Cork Opera House and a new postgraduate degree are part of a new partnership that will see University College Cork invest more than €500,000 in the cultural institution.

THE controversial knitting map, commissioned as a community art project for Cork’s 2005 Capital of Culture celebrations, is the subject of a symposium taking place at UCC’s Glucksman Gallery.

UCC lecturer Mary Morrissy says a proper writing course may have gotten her to that IMPAC nomination a bit sooner, writes Colette Sheridan

The long-lost knitted map of Cork, which cost the taxpayer €259,000 a decade ago, is being taken out of storage and dusted down for its first public display in seven years.

Writing for radio and making documentaries are doable compared to getting film and TV scripts produced, Dr Jools Gilson, of University College Cork’s School of English tells Colette Sheridan. 

Anam Cara dates in part to the 1700s, but has been extended and refurbished to an exacting standard.

A radio documentary written by UCC lecturer Dr Jools Gilson will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 next week.

Cork’s city fathers have pulled the rug from under a proposal to use a giant knitted map of the city — which cost taxpayers €259,000 seven years ago — as a tourist attraction.