Category: Current Affairs

Articles, Current Affairs, University

UCC’s Economics going into the Second Semester of a Digital Year

Motley’s Deputy of Current Affairs Stephen Moynihan discusses the funding situation for UCC over the coming months.    The financial situation of Ireland’s universities is certainly of concern to all parties with links to UCC, most of all to students and to the 200 staff who have been let go. COVID-19 has only exacerbated the existing funding crisis in higher education. Universities are suffering from … Continue reading UCC’s Economics going into the Second Semester of a Digital Year

Stephen Moynihan
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Current Affairs, Features

A picture is more than a thousand words

    UCC Law Society host events on Coercive Control and Online Abuse by Bailey Lane (edited by Alana Daly Mulligan and Niamh Browne) Bailey Lane, Internal Convener with the UCC Law Society, discusses the issues of Image based sexual abuse and coercive control in Irish society. Editor’s Note: Some of the content discussed in this article may be upsetting to some readers. The weaponisation … Continue reading A picture is more than a thousand words

Bailey Lane
Current Affairs

Getting your daily fix: How you’ve been programmed for social media addiction

  Don’t look away, we’re just telling you the truth. Conor Daly looks at how our brains are being rewired to act as money-makers for the capitalist machine through social-media.    We judge people with little to no information about their life struggles, their childhoods and what has led them to the point when we meet them. The most harshly judged? Addicts. Perhaps it’s a … Continue reading Getting your daily fix: How you’ve been programmed for social media addiction

Conor Daly
Current Affairs

Video Assistant Referee: Offside with football fans due to its problematic decisions

  When VAR (Video Assistant Referee) was introduced into the Premier League in the 2019/20 season, it was something that had been long-awaited, but thus far, it has made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Conor Daly talks us through this crucial development in the sporting world and some of the issues associated with this sporting development.    New solutions, particularly ones that involve technology, … Continue reading Video Assistant Referee: Offside with football fans due to its problematic decisions

Conor Daly
Current Affairs

Searching for Good: A Conversation with Google’s Peter Norvig

   Current Affairs Editor Alana Daly Mulligan talks with Google’s Director of Research Peter Norvig about the development of Artificial Intelligence; the good, the bad, and the misunderstood.    “Google started out, and really, Google couldn’t do anything.” Peter Norvig tells me. This was definitely something I wasn’t expecting to hear from the mouth of the Director of Research at Google. He elaborates and says … Continue reading Searching for Good: A Conversation with Google’s Peter Norvig

Alana Daly Mulligan
Current Affairs

AI, Ethics & The European Union

Deputy Current Affairs Editor Stephen Moynihan talks with UCC’s own Professor Barry O’Sullivan on his recent tenure as the Vice-Chair of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. “Of course there are risks… you can’t just let any old technology in the world because you can. There are protections that you need to put in place when you’re using it, but I think … Continue reading AI, Ethics & The European Union

Stephen Moynihan