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Issue no. 281
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Friday 20th March - Thursday 26th March 2015
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Callum Owens from Ballinlough, Junior Cello U15s, practices while his mum Aileen Ownes waits at the ESB Feis Ceoil at the RDS in Dublin. He later went on to come second in his section. Ireland’s biggest classical music festival runs through until Friday March 27th with over 5000 competitors, culminating in a Gala Concert at the National Concert Hall on Sunday March 29th. Picture by: Clare Keogh
Hook George Hook muses on the state of play in Irish politics and the advent of Renua on Page 11
Survey: 15% of UCC students report “non–consensual” sexual experience By Eoghan MacNeill news@thecorknews.ie
Over 15 percent of UCC students who responded to an on–campus survey say they have experienced non–consensual sexual contact, accord-
ing to a report published this week. The survey — carried out by Know Offence — further found that over one–third of students surveyed have experienced what they categorised as “unwanted physical contact” in a university setting.
Using a sample of 330 UCC students, the study also found that 82 percent do not know which university authorities they should report a sexual offence to. A campaign has now been set up to highlight the issue of sexual consent among students, aiming to “dispel
some of the myths around sexual violence,” according to campaign officer Lucy Jones. “With cases of sexual violence, you’ll often hear things like: ‘She deserved it,’ or ‘she continued on page 2
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Going Places So good they named it twice! See New York, Page 60