Welcome to this week’s edition of the Student Hub weekly email digest. In this edition we report on how a last-minute scramble for accommodation may happen in the autumn due to a possible delay in the release of this year’s Leaving Cert results. We ask how some people manage to have conversations without swearing; Má tá arm Eorpach le bheith ann táthar suite de gur géag de chuid Nato a bheidh ann, a scríobhann Alan Titley; we report on the MTU cyber attack and we could be in for some heavy snow later this month...
Frustration as delayed Leaving Cert results may cut university term short: Universities, lecturers and students have expressed frustration after it emerged that this year’s Leaving Cert results could be released in early September once again.
MTU Cork confirms it suffered ransomware cyber attack as campus remains closed: Munster Technological University Cork was “targeted in a cyber attack”, the educational institution has said. The TU Cork campus has been closed this week following a “significant” IT breach and phone outages.
Ireland could see heavy snow and cold in coming weeks due to ‘sudden stratospheric warming’: Ireland could see heavy snow and extremely cold temperatures later this month or in early March, as a weather pattern that brought on the Beast from the East storm in 2018 “is highly likely” to develop over the next week.
Women in science event highlights progress and persisting barriers: A large room of more than 70 successful women scientists from Ireland and the UK – ranging across the private sector, government, healthcare and academia – might send the wrong signals, said Prof Charlotte Watts.
Dublin International Film Festival 2023: Paul Mescal and Emily Watson to star in opening movie: The programme for the 21st Dublin International Film Festival has been announced at the Light House Cinema in Dublin. Guests flying in for the event, which begins on February 23rd, include Jane Seymour and, receiving the festival’s Volta award, Emily Watson.
Armie Hammer breaks silence on sex abuse allegations: ‘I was selfish... I used people’: Armie Hammer gave his first interview since the beginning of 2021, when multiple sexual misconduct and abuse allegations were made against the actor, saying all the encounters involved were consensual while acknowledging he was emotionally abusive in his relationships.
Ireland could see heavy snow and cold in coming weeks due to ‘sudden stratospheric warming’: Ireland could see heavy snow and extremely cold temperatures later this month or in early March, as a weather pattern that brought on the Beast from the East storm in 2018 “is highly likely” to develop over the next week.
How do other people manage to have conversations without swearing? I’m getting a swear jar. It’s just one of the many new year’s resolutions I’m slowly putting in place. Or at least one of the many I’m planning to put in place before January, the dreariest, longest month of the year, saps every last bit of energy and enthusiasm out of me.
Justine McCarthy: The Attorney General would say that, wouldn’t he? There is a maxim that, if you go to court seeking justice, all you will get is law. Jaundiced as that may sound, many litigants have survived to attest to its truth. Go to court, and watch swarms of expensive lawyers spinning the gossamer of statutes, precedents and rules of evidence on the head of a pin.
