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Student house parties continue to be a problem in Cork City during Freshers Week.
Gardaí said that last night they responded to calls for five house parties attended by more than 20 to 40 people, despite calls for students to behave responsibly.
While the number of incidents was lower than Sunday night, Gardaí remains concerned given the large concentration of students who recently returned to rental accommodation in areas around University College Cork.
It comes as there was a condemnation of large groups of students in Galway who gathered in that city last night despite restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The UCC Student Union refused to cancel Freshers Week despite requests from the university and local residents.
The union has urged students to behave responsibly, but says it would not cancel plans for Freshers Week.
More than 22,000 students returned to UCC this week.
Superintendent Colm O’Sullivan said Garda resources would be concentrated in the areas around University College Cork for the remainder of Freshers Week and renewed his call for people to adhere to public health guidelines.
Last weekend, UCC Acting President John O’Halloran warned students in an email not to do anything that could affect their future.
Students “who are found organizing, organizing or attending meetings that violate the guidelines will be subject to sanctions that may include expulsion from the University, when justified.”
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Meanwhile, the University of Limerick has said that it is working with its student representative bodies, along with gardaí, to ensure that they seize every opportunity in the coming weeks to promote public health and public health safety guidelines for students from University.
UL Associate Vice President for Student Engagement Patrick Ryan said they have been working over the summer, along with various representative groups across the city, to bring back students and prepare to promote the best health guidelines in each opportunity.
He said that for all those students who live in the city and close to the UL campus, his message to them is to stay safe and therefore to their families safe when they return to them.
He said that if there are problems or problems or complaints they have mechanisms to deal with them.
Ryan said they will be in the student community promoting the health message, particularly if they see times when students can take the opportunity to host parties at home.
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