Mary Harney says UL ‘horrified’ over property controversy

“An Oireachtas committee has heard that a university’s governing body was ‘horrified’ to discover that it may have been ‘misled’ over a substantial property acquisition …” (more)

[RTÉ News, 12 May]

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