UCD REVOLT OVER NEWMAN BOYCOTT

Andrew Deeks

UCD’S CRASS decision to boycott the canonisation of its founder, John Henry Newman, was reversed, the university said, because the government had reconsidered its own decision to ignore the event and had belatedly delegated education minister Joe McHugh to attend the event in Rome. The rationale for UCD’s reversal was almost as inane as its… Read more »

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