“Student leaders have slammed claims that Northern Ireland’s two main universities are putting off Protestants. Speaking as the Assembly prepares to debate the migration of school-leavers today, student representatives have rejected DUP suggestions that a religious imbalance in Northern Ireland’s academic institutions is because Protestants do not feel welcome. Gareth McGreevy, student campaigns officer at QUB, said: ‘To suggest that Queen’s is a house for republicanism is an unfounded suggestion …’” (more)
[Belfast Telegraph, 6 October]