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.

St Louis Cardinals trounced the Reds 13-4 in Cincinnati in a result which, combined with the Cubs losing, leaves them top of the National League Central.

The St Louis Cardinals eased past the Chicago Cubs 8-0 to leapfrog their opponents and take the lead of the National League Central.

MaREI marine research institute, in UCC, is hosting an event entitled ‘Collaboration Opportunities for a Thriving Maritime Economy’ on Thursday, May 2, in the UCC Centre for Executive Education, 1 Lapps Quay, Cork.

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

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

The Los Angeles Dodgers set a record for home runs on the opening day of a Major League Baseball season with eight in the 12-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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.

The past year produced another crop of bizarre, eye-watering injuries for sport stars. And not all of them happened during the action.

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

Professional women were told to “know their worth and ask for equal pay” at the second annual Cork University Business School (CUBS) conference, writes Pádraig Hoare.

As the youngsters say, 'we can’t even'.

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.

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.

Joe Schmidt may not believe in omens but in a week of sporting romance in the city of Chicago he would love to borrow a little of the Cubs’ stardust to end Ireland’s 111-year wait for a victory over New Zealand.

The World Series will be decided in game seven on Wednesday after the Chicago Cubs romped to a 9-3 success against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field.

In a city obsessed with sporting history, Ultan Dillane can see the neat symmetry with Ireland’s bid for a first win over the All Blacks this weekend as the Chicago Cubs chase a first World Series since 1908.

The Chicago Cubs kept their World Series hopes alive as they reduced their deficit to 3-2 against the Cleveland Indians.

If you thought Mayo's wait to get their hands on the Sam Maguire cup was bad, get a load of this.

Michael Moynihan looks back on the past month’s big GAA news...

University College Cork is set to transform a landmark former bank into a flagship business school hub after the city last night agreed to sell the building to the college.

Maybe there is a game more romanticised, more mythologised than rugby.

The New York Mets completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series with an 8-3 rout on Wednesday. It put them into the World Series for the first time since 2000.

Mayo by creed, a Liverpool and Chicago Cubs fan by deed, Billy Joe Padden may just be a glutton for punishment.

The GAA line you’ve heard and seen all summer is a simple one.

Not a puck did we see of Saturday’s All-Ireland hurling final replay.

USA:

Late last night in Miami, the old F Scott Fitzgerald adage about no second acts gracing American lives was given a run for its money by an inconsequential game between the New York Mets and the Miami Marlins.

Anger was mounting throughout the US today regarding a law cracking down on illegal immigration in Arizona.

MUNSTER RUGBY may not have been born in the USA, but the official final run–in to their new season began in Chicago yesterday.

THE Chicago White Sox are World Series champions again, and yet another epic streak of futility is not just wiped away but swept away.

ROOKIE Miguel Cabrera homered and drove in four runs and Josh Beckett tossed four superb innings in relief as the Florida Marlins posted a 9-6 triumph over the Chicago Cubs to qualify for baseball’s World Series.