Student leaders to fight closure of UCC's Old College Bar

Student leaders have vowed to fight a management decision to close the landmark old college bar at University College Cork (UCC).

UCC Students’ Union, its societies’ executive and its clubs’ executive united last night to express their disappointment at the move which they said would result in the loss of a venue which hosted up to 150 club and society events, and up to 1,000 social events every year.

In a jointly signed letter to UCC president, Dr Michael Murphy, students’ union president, Eolann Sheehan, said they are “disappointed and appalled” by the decision, and called on management to reverse it: “The Old College Bar is an important aspect of our university’s social and cultural history as well as an indispensable service and facility used by societies, clubs and student organisations on campus.