“The unmistakable smells of spring and the reminders of growth belie the deepening evening twilight — not to mention the gloomy financial debates on the radio I’ve just gladly switched off — as I get out of my car and march purposely across the campus at National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth. As I enter the university’s Office of Commercialisation, the sights and sounds of college life are eclipsed as its director, John Scanlon, gets straight to the point …” (more)
[John Kennedy, Independent, 19 March]