UCC students reject €50 charge for enhanced sports facilities

University College Cork students have narrowly defeated a proposal to charge them €50 extra a year to improve and expand green spaces and sport facilities.

The 54%-46% outcome followed two days of voting by almost 3,900 students in a referendum run by UCC Students’ Union (UCCSU).

The UCC sport and physical activity department, and the executive representing almost 60 student sports clubs, lobbied for the increase to the €165 capitation which is paid in addition to the Department of Education-set €3,000 student fee.