“A university president has warned that any more delays in solving the funding crisis in higher education will damage thousands of students …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 17 February]
“‘Equivocation’ around funding for higher education ‘has done lasting damage’ to the institutions and to students, the president of NUI Maynooth has said. Prof Philip Nolan warned a failure to adequately fund higher education would result in ‘an inevitable mediocrity to the detriment of generations of students’ …” (more)
[Fiona Gartland, Irish Times, 17 February]
“Is new General Secretary ready for fire fighting? The appointment of Seán Ó Foghlú, pictured, as the new Secretary General in the Department of Education was not unexpected …” (more)
[Irish Times, 14 February]
“NUI Maynooth has been voted the friendliest place to go to college in Ireland in a poll of 10,000 third-level students …” (more)
[Irish Examiner, 17 January]
“NUI Maynooth has been voted the friendliest place to go to college in Ireland in a poll of 1,000 third-level students …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 17 January]
“Trainee priests at Ireland’s national seminary in Maynooth are to be separated from the rest of the student body …” (more)
[Clerical Whispers, 15 January]
“… I was reminded this week of Hayes’s remarks when reading about how St Patrick’s College in Maynooth is taking steps to more clearly separate the seminary environment from the wider university environment. It is a move towards further enforced separation between the Catholic priesthood and society generally and is therefore a step in the wrong direction …” (more)
[Noel Whelan, Irish Times, 14 January]
“The national seminary at Maynooth is to clearly separate the seminary environment from the wider university community, The Irish Catholic understands. In a move that will be seen in some quarters as a nod to the past when seminary life was completely separated from the outside world …” (more)
[Michael Kelly, The Irish Catholic, 12 January]
“Students at the Irish national seminary at Maynooth will be separated from other students on the sprawling campus, in a move to preserve the distinctive quality of the seminary as a training ground for clerics, the Irish Catholic reports …” (more)
[Catholic Culture, 11 January]
“An elite group of almost 200 academics and administrators in higher education earn over €150,000 while half earn over €200,000 …” (more)
[Peter McGuire and Seán Flynn, Irish Times, 6 December]
“Nine NUI Maynooth students are this morning entering the third day of their occupation of the constituency office of Kildare TD Anthony Lawlor in Naas …” (more)
[Donie O'Sullivan, College Tribune, 4 December]
“The leader of the group of students who have occupied the constituency office of a Fine Gael TD in Kildare confronted him as he gave an interview outside his office this afternoon …” (more, video)
[TheJournal.ie, 3 December]
“Eight students from NUI Maynooth who have occupied the constituency office of Fine Gael TD Anthony Lawlor in Naas, Co Kildare, have said they are there for the long haul …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 3 December]
“The Fine Gael TD whose offices are being occupied by several Maynooth students in a protest against cuts to third-level grants and increased fees says he does not want to see the group get into trouble over their actions …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 3 December]
“Eight students from NUI Maynooth have occupied the constituency office of Fine Gael TD Anthony Lawlor to highlight their fear that student maintenance grants may be cut in next week’s Budget …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 3 November]
“Members of the Maynooth Students’ Union have occupied the Naas constituency office of Fine Gael TD Anthony Lawlor in the latest escalation of the wider student movement against the reintroduction of fees and cuts to third-level grants …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 2 December]
“Trinity College has teamed up with six of Ireland’s largest third level institutions in a cross-border initiative to establish a new Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) structured PhD programme …” (more)
[Fionn O’Dea, University Times, 22 November]
“A series of letters and poems arising out of an unlikely friendship between an Irish missionary nun and the Nigerian writer and social activist Ken Saro-Wiwa have been handed over to NUI Maynooth …” (more)
[Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times, 11 November]
“The Irish Federation of University Teachers has expressed serious concern about a warning of possible prosecution issued to an academic at NUI Maynooth by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission …” (more)
[Lorna Siggins, Irish Times, 31 October]
“The reputation of Irish universities has taken another hammering in an international league table. The research team involved blames cuts for big falls by six of Ireland’s seven universities, and Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in the most prestigious global college performance ratings …” (more)
[Katherine Donnelly, Independent, 6 October]
