Cork tech firm Yooni could reduce the student drop-out rate in Irish colleges, writes Trish Dromey.

Having been set to take time away from football after his spell as Kildare manager, Cian O’Neill has revealed how Ronan McCarthy coaxed him into the Cork set-up as a coach to the senior footballers.

There are plenty of simple yet enjoyable ways to spend quality time with your kids post Christmas Day, says Ed Power.

UCC Gaelic games development officer John Grainger has described the GAA’s decision to shoehorn third level fixtures into tighter schedules as “short-sighted”.

Conor Browne had seven possessions in the All-Ireland semi-final, a figure roundly accepted as being below-average for a midfielder.

John Daly reports on the successful drive by CIT to support ambitious students across a range of disciplines developing a business on campus.

Joe Dermody looks at this week's business movers

Denis Fogarty has been appointed as senior account manager with National Business Machines (NBM) in Cork, a Xerox concessionaire and provider of printers and software packages.

Play is fundamental to children’s whole development and parents need to be involved, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

The new national cybersecurity body that will be led out of Cork has been launched with a warning that cybercrime is expected to be worth almost €5 trillion in two years.

CIT honoured graduates at its recent 2019 Faculty of Business and Humanities Alumni Awards.

Mary I will meet NUIG Galway for a place in the Fitzgibbon Cup decider after this comfortable quarter-final victory over CIT.

With the Kerry senior, minor, and junior footballers already having done the business, it is left to Jack O’Connor’s U20s to complete a clean sweep of provincial crowns.

TDs are demanding that a detailed cost review of the Limerick Tunnel transport development is immediately published after officials admit the full cost may exceed €200m.

Pubs and nightclubs in Cork city have embraced an initiative to help people who feel at risk or vulnerable while out socialising.

The Irish Naval Service (INS) was disappointed by the decision of UCC and Cork Institute of Technology to shut down earlier this year a maritime research facility on which the three collaborated.

Food news with Joe McNamee

The Dáil public accounts committee has demanded that Cork Institute of Technology explain why it spent €13,000 on a “banquet” for its retiring president which involved a “red carpet, marquee, and ice-sculpture of a dolphin” as students are struggling for help.

A planning crackdown on student accommodation in suburban Cork is on the cards in a bid to prevent the areas being swamped by overdevelopment.

Campaigns like SHAG and SHIFT weeks aim to put the focus on the big issue of sexual consent at third level institutions, writes Áilín Quinlan

The Irish Naval Service has declined to comment directly on the decision to wind down an award-winning marine research facility in which it was a joint partner.

Tears flowed for a young GAA player, laid to rest next to his father, as a small community gathered in grief to comfort a family rocked by a tragedy.

A partnership between two third-level colleges and the Irish Naval Service to promote commercial maritime research has been mothballed for “not being fit for purpose”.

The HEA is short members and plans to merge some institutes of technology are advancing despite concerns. The education minister must step up, writes Alan Kelly

Four seats are to be left vacant by Education Minister Richard Bruton on the board of the body responsible for the spending of €1.2bn a year by third-level colleges.

An American anti-poaching and conservation group has offered a €4,000 reward for information leading to the identification of two men who threw a dead dolphin out a window during a party at a student apartment complex in Cork.

See a superb performance by CIT goalkeeper Patrick Collins against NUIG in the Fitzgibbon Cup last night in Cork. 

University of Limerick 2-21, NUI Galway 2-12: The hurlers of UL booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Fitzgibbon Cup with this second comprehensive victory on home turf.

President Michael D Higgins attended the launch yesterday of the 300th anniversary celebrations of one of Cork’s oldest churches.

Over 1,300 school-children go head-to-head at biggest ever Dell EMC VEX Robotics competition final in Cork at the Nexus Centre in CIT.

A Cork company lauded for some of the most imaginative software development in the world has two more lifesaving apps in the works that could transform individual sea safety and responses to cardiac events.

Allow me to set the scene — in 2013, Dr Cian O’Neill arrived in Cork Institute of Technology to head up a new department called Sport, Leisure & Childhood Studies.

Most octogenarians would have their feet up with a nice cup of tea in hand, but not husband and wife, Joe and Kay O’Regan, who held hands as they crossed the finish line of Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon.

The culmination of more than thirty weeks work is on display at the James Barry Exhibition Centre in Cork’s Institute of Technology (CIT) as the students of Media Communications come together to showcase their work in CHROMA – The Next Generation.

A recipe book, endorsed by cancer doctors and dieticians, offers a healthy and more palatable-looking alternative to the “blitzed in a blender” mush patients often have to contend with when illness makes eating difficult.

Ambitious plans by the Institute of Technology Tralee to increase student numbers envisages the shedding of its south campus in the Kerry town.

DURING March the bright stars of winter give way to the inexorable lengthening of the day as the sun rises higher in the sky. On March 20, the day and night are of equal length, the so-called spring equinox (‘equal night’).

After the death of his partner, it took a while for Graham J to return to singing, writes Jo Kerrigan