Cost of living at forefront of students' minds at start of new term at UCC

'One international student showed up to the place she thought she had rented and it was actually an old lady’s house. She was scammed out of €3,000.'

First-year engineering students Joseph Enright, Colm Goggin, and Colm McSherry at the Quad at UCC. Pictures: Larry Cummins

Accommodation scams, drink spiking, and the spiralling cost of living were among the main concerns of students taking their first excited steps back on campus at University College Cork this term.

Under the Aula Maxima’s soaring wooden beams and tall stained-glass windows, a Bystander Intervention workshop was given, instructing about consent and how to help in situations of sexual misconduct or sexual violence.