UCC to invest €500k in Opera House partnership

Student internships at Cork Opera House and a new postgraduate degree are part of a new partnership that will see University College Cork invest more than €500,000 in the cultural institution.

The funding from UCC’s non-taxpayer revenues will be spread over eight years and the university will get its name in lights over the Cork Opera House, replacing the Toyota signs that were recently removed at the end of a 30-year-old sponsorship deal.

One of three large signs showing the Cork Opera House and UCC logos, either side of the words “creating together”, has been erected on the fly tower above the city-centre building. It will be lit from below at night, like the Toyota sign that preceded it, and two similar signs will be placed on the tower’s north and west facades.