Thanks to @AodhQuinlivan and all the people in the background who manage @UCCFantasyFoot for the surprise prize!! Five years on and success in a competition. here's to 2030 for the next one!.

Arsenal supporters don’t get many nights like this …… what a performance! #Arsenal

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all. the image is of the Harry Clarke stained glass image of the saint in the Honan Chapel, UCC.

Grateful thanks to all who attended the three Ash Wednesday liturgies in the Honan Chapel yesterday and thanks also to Bishop Fintan Gavin for his inspiring homilies as he visited UCC for the day.

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday the beginning of the season of Lent. Bishop Fintan Gavin will preside at all three Masses in the Honan Chapel which will include the distribution of ashes. All are welcome.

Thanks to the indefatigable Pat Leahy from Applied Social Sciences UCC for leading our Le Cheile session tonight on Drug and Alcohol Dependency. The Le Cheile programme is designed to help students to recognise change in behaviour of peers and use tools to assist or intervene.

UCC Chaplaincy welcomes Cindy O’Shea of Applied Social Studies Department to our Le Cheile programme (week 3). Cindy is also a long term volunteer with the Samaritans. The difficult topic this evening was Suicide Prevention. Our grateful thanks to her and our participants.

The Honan Chapel had new energy saving floodlights installed in the past few days ….

UCC Chaplaincy was delighted to host students from Islamic Society, Jewish Society and Christian Union last evening as a ‘Faith and Friendship’ event. Collaborating on what unites us as people of different faiths is inspiring.

UCC Chaplaincy welcome Celine Griffin, director of UCC Bystander Intervention Programme to our Le Cheile session this evening. We have a long association with our bystander colleagues and proud to support their incredible work across the third level sector ⁦@BystanderUcc⁩

February 11th is the feast of our local saint Gobnait … the sixth century woman associated with Ballyvourney and her care for the sick. Patron of beekeepers … I’m biased but the image of Saint Gobnait by Harry Clarke in the Honan Chapel is beyond beautiful.

UCC Chaplaincy is launching our Le Cheile programme for this semester tonight and we’re happy to welcome our colleague George Nagle from UCC Counseling and Development on the theme of ‘active listening’. Our thanks to him and our participants. For more email lecheile@ucc.ie

UCC Chaplaincy are delighted to host Christmas dinner for some of our international students today in UCC . tucking in to traditional turkey and ham ! Thanks to all our volunteers and supporters for making this happen.

Just about to celebrate the midnight Mass in the Honan Chapel at UCC. wishing all of you the blessings of this season.

The chaplaincy team - all for of us - were out early each morning this past week providing energy bars and juices to the early arriving students to the library - as part of our contribution to support them during study week. Wishing them well in exams.

During November, UCC Chaplaincy on behalf of the university, recorded the fifth annual remembrance service in the Honan Chapel to remember those of the university community who have died in the past year:

Happy birthday to our wonderful chaplaincy colleague Alan Marley

Preparing the recording of our annual remembrance service for all our deceased students, staff and retired staff of UCC who have died since last November. Thanks to all our colleagues in Audio Visual UCC for facilitating this. When completed, video will be shared.

Our grateful thanks to Pat Leahy (UCC Applied Social Studies) for a fascinating contribution on drugs and alcohol awareness for UCC Chaplaincy ‘Le Cheile’ programme this evening. Our programme is designed to assist students in the care and concern of their peers. lecheile@ucc.ie

Great to welcome Cindy O Shea (School of Applied Social Studies UCC) delivering a module to the UCC chaplaincy ‘Le Cheile’ programme participants on suicide prevention. Important information in caring for others is the bedrock of the Le Cheile course. Info: lecheile@ucc.ie