Ruling due on injunction sought by senior UCC lecturer

A judge will give her decision later on whether to grant an injunction to senior lecturer and head of the Management and Marketing Department at UCC, Joan Buckley, who has brought proceedings arising out of the decision not to shortlist her in a competition for 10 professorial positions.

It is a shattering blow to the standing of Dr Buckley at the college not to be shortlisted, her counsel Frank Callanan told the High Court yesterday.

Counsel for UCC, Mark Connaughton, submitted that 360 people applied for the 10 positions at Cork University Business School and 36 were shortlisted.