“A creative partnership is set to see University College Cork’s name in lights in new signage over Cork Opera House from next year. It is understood around €600,000 is being paid by UCC as part of the deal that will see large Toyota signs on the Cork Opera House roof replaced after around 30 years …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 13 December]
Wow. Just wow. Have UCC run out of ways to spend money. Next they will just burn cash in the senior common room, and from the wing-backed leather chairs the professorate will give out about how little heat it give off. This is a staggering waste of public money- taxpayers, students and (if they have any) donors.