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

The famed Honan Chapel in University College Cork is set to celebrate its 100th year.

Artist and designer Robert Ballagh is set to address a conference exploring The Arts and the 1916 Rising.

An exciting initiative helping secondary school students make the right choices in terms of colleges and courses is expanding to cover Cork, Limerick, and Galway this year.

Article 41.2 of the Irish constitution declares that the State recognises the mother’s position within the home and “therefore endeavours to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.”

Elementary, my dear Watson? Maybe so, as an event next week at University College Cork will hear that the inspiration for Professor James Moriarty, nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, was actually mathematician George Boole.

For many years, students at UCC have been greeted with the familiar sight of mini-Hogwarts students around campus.

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Our efforts to understand the 1916 Rising and its leaders should focus on their expectations of what would happen and not just what transpired, according to one of the country’s leading historians.

A student-run law conference on trafficking will be held in UCC this month.

University College Cork was the hub of discussions ranging from the future of print media to the role of feminism in journalism last Saturday.

It has been described as a “Book of Kells of the second millennium”.

It has been described as a “Book of Kells of the second millennium”.

The East Cork Early Music Festival is a showcase of compositions pre-1750, says Declan Townsend

MORE than 200 delegates from a number of countries will attend a special three-day conference in UCC next week which will focus on Ireland’s future energy and transport needs.

RECENTLY I attended a recital of three of Beethoven’s string quartets by the Vanbrugh String Quartet at the Aula Maxima in UCC.

IF Queen Elizabeth deigns to come to Cork during her State visit to Ireland, they may have to do a bit of heavy lifting at UCC. A statue of her predecessor, Queen Victoria, once held pride of place on the roof of the college’s Aula Maxima when it was Queen’s University Cork.

NUI Galway has issued a global invitation to hundreds of former students for a massive reunion in the city next month.

JERRY O’CONNOR was last night awarded the Jury’s Cork Hotel Supreme Sport Star Award for 2005 at The 25th Annual ceremony, which took place at the Aula Maxima, University College Cork.