“… I was surprised and disappointed to see the sentence below: ‘Almost half a century after Hume campaigned for the North’s second university to be sited in Derry, it must make do with an out-station from the University of Ulster’. Without prejudice to the opinions she expressed in the rest of her piece and conscious of the profound sensitivities surrounding the publication of the Saville report, I write to defend the reputation of the staff, students and alumni of Magee …” (more)
[Deirdre Heenan, Irish Times, 21 June]