“One of the many ironies of ‘free fees’ for higher education is that they didn’t even succeed in getting Niamh Bhreathnach re-elected. The minister for education who introduced the measure in 1995, at a time when Labour was trying to strengthen its middle-class vote, lost her seat in the general election just two years later …” (more)
[Joe Humphreys, Irish Times, 15 February]