General elections can be frustrating for those who care about balanced regional development.

The Department of Education has this week approved €18.75m in principal towards significant building upgrades at CIT which, it says, represents a “further boost” to the institute.

The Cork County Board’s audit and risk sub-committee has threatened to resign after advising the board executive to inform last week’s annual convention that the board’s deficit is more than €2.4m — and not the €560,000 figure given to delegates.

The Fiscal Advisory Council, or Ifac, was set up in 2011 to help Government avoid the mistakes that had led to economic crisis in 2008.

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Farmers will continue to picket outside several meat factories today, in a dispute over prices.

While a major investment in five higher education projects has been welcomed, there is an ongoing need to increase core funding to the third-level sector, the Irish Universities Association (IUA) warn.

The Government is set to announce a €100m investment in five third-level education building projects today — with UCC set to get a significant share for its new business school in the heart of Cork City.

Global markets appear to have called time on the dangerous game of hardball US president Donald Trump is playing with China, as a plunge in shares, government bond yields, and the price of oil signalled his trade wars could lead to world recession.

Margaret Thatcher was reported to have said that a man over the age of 30 taking the bus could consider himself a failure.

The Irish Management Institute (IMI) has become the first Irish educator to be listed in the Financial Times global top 50 for executive education.

It’s not easy at first, but we can live a more sustainable life by simply forming a few new habits, writes Áilín Quinlan.

University College Cork (UCC) has today signed contracts for the acquisition of Dairygold’s property in South Terrace for €17.25 million.

A risorgimento on Leeside can come to the aid of the nation, writes Allan Prosser

Failure to fund higher education stores up problems for the future It is close to three years since the publication of the report of the expert group on funding Ireland’s third level institutions.

A €3m partnership between UCC and financial services firm Fexco will see major research conducted on emerging financial technologies, or fintech.

Three in five small businesses are failing to implement digital technology such as cloud computing, a UCC study has found.

The Brexit roadshow rolls on and last week’s commotion in the House of Commons shows just how difficult it is for businesses to cope with the uncertainty it throws up.

University College Cork is to open a 4,000-student strong Business School in Cork city centre in what is another huge boost for the region.

There has been cross-party support and agreement on Ireland’s response to the substantial threat posed by Brexit.

One of the country’s leading research centres has proven it has an appetite for profit by generating a five-fold economic return on public investment — but its director said the societal benefits of its work are equally important.

Organisations are experiencing ‘gender fatigue’ when it comes to implementing gender diversity in the workplace, a leading HR expert has claimed.

More than €850m a year is generated by the activities and staff of University College Cork, or almost €5.70 for every €1 invested by the Government.

A creative partnership is set to see University College Cork’s name in lights in new signage over Cork Opera House from next year.

Irish people care a lot about places. Most conversations begin or quickly move on to establishing where you are from. Our sports are based on parish and county allegiances and our politics are essentially local.

For Ireland to reach its economic development potential over the next 20 years, Irish policymakers need to undergo a change of mindset. 

Raise rent supplement; bring in strict rent control, writes Declan Jordan. 

However, there is an urgent need for a new breed of medical professional trained in digital health, say Dr Ciara Fitzgerald, Dr Ciara Heavin, and Dr Yvonne O’Connor.

The recent scandals at some of our third-level institutions revealed by an RTÉ investigation could not have come at a worse time for the third-level sector in the public debate around sustainable funding.

University College Cork acquired a private business college without picking up the tab for its pension scheme, which previously had a deficit of more than €10m.

Immigration is contentious, and election campaigns worldwide have alleged that immigration deprives locals of jobs and that refugees are a burden. 

University College Cork has said it is satisfied it paid market value when it bought a former bank from a local authority for €800,000 more than its purchase price two years earlier.

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University College Cork president Patrick O’Shea used the inaugural Cork University Business School conference to announce plans to build a business school in Cork City centre that will be one of the biggest in the country.

University College Cork has been given planning permission to turn an old city centre bank into a premises for its business school.

Detailed plans of conservation work to retain historic features of a former city centre bank are included in an application to convert it to a business school for University College Cork.