Could some probiotic bacteria be helpful in treating stress-related disorders and other mental health conditions? That’s the subject of a new review p(...)

Sinead O’Neill: I felt that I wasn’t suited to teaching

I switched from primary teaching in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick to commerce in UCC. I felt that I wasn’t suited to primary teaching. I also felt(...)

Ben Power (right) and Broden Giambrone from Transgender Equality Network Ireland pictured in Smithfield, Dublin. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

Applying for university isn’t easy for anyone, but if you’re a transgender person the lack of protective legislation can create an added difficulty. (...)

A detail from  Elina Brotherus’s La Main. Photographs courtesy of Raccolta Della Fotografia Galleria Civica di Modena.

Does it matter what an artist looks like? Surely we should only care about the work they do. Yet we are usually very curious about appearances, perhap(...)

Image from the Government’s consultation document on Money Follows the Patient, which illustrates the model that is going to be introduced.

A new system of funding public hospitals in Ireland is to be introduced by January 2014 that promises to be fairer, more efficient and more transparen(...)

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Prof Anita Maguire and Dr Padraig Cantillon-Murphy who are shortlisted for the UCC Invention of the Year Awards, with previous winner, Prof Peter O’Keeffe, Tyndall National Institute. photograph: daragh mc sweeney/provision

A number of groundbreaking innovations are vying for the UCC Invention of the Year award which will be announced today. Among this year’s shortlist f(...)

Graham Norton after he received an honorary doctorate at University College Cork yesterday. “I was more surprised than excited when I heard but being here now it really is a proper thrill,” the broadcaster said.  Photograph: Daragh McSweeney/Provision

Being Irish is definitely an advantage when working in British broadcasting, seven-time Bafta award winner, Graham Norton said yesterday as he returne(...)

Simon Zebo and Peter O’Mahony visit the Houston Space Centre with the Irish squad yesterday. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho

First thing you notice about Johnny Quill is his size. Second thing is that unmistakable Cork lilt. Third is his USA training gear. It need not be vie(...)

Researchers from Tyndall National Institute stage a ‘Stop the Inequity’ information campaign in UCC yesterday to highlight discrimination against researchers on pay and conditions under Croke Park and Haddington road Agreements. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

Dissatisfaction over pay has caused a scientist at one of Ireland’s’s leading research centres to move away from the facility. Researchers at the Tynd(...)

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