“The comments by the UCC president did nothing to enhance the institution’s five-star status. As someone who progressed through schools (and indeed the university) located in a disadvantaged area, I don’t believe I held anyone back …” (more)
[Mick Finn, Irish Examiner, 30 December]
“It is ‘steady as she goes’ when looking back at decisions made by Government in the research, innovation, enterprise sector during 2011. Rather than simply throw out coherent policies formulated under Fianna Fáil-led governments from as far back as 1998, the incoming Government took them on board reshaping them to suit their own agendas …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 30 December]
“On the evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue …” (more)
[Economist, 16 December]
