“DCU’s president has rejected claims that he is being lined up to succeed his Trinity College counterpart when his ten-year term comes to an end next summer. Both The Irish Times and The University Times – Trinity’s SU publication – have suggested that Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski is a potential successor of the head of Trinity, provost John Hegarty. The University Times last week described von Prondzynski as a ‘somewhat controversial candidate’ having been ’embroiled in staffing and dismissal issues in DCU’ …” (more)
[The College View, 4 October]