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“A decision to deny a top academic entry into the race to become Trinity’s first female provost has been blasted as ‘draconian and disproportionate’. Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey, a French lecturer and known advocate for academic freedom was, following a hearing last Thursday of an internal committee, refused entry from the race to succeed Paddy Prendergast as head of Ireland’s oldest university …” (more)
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Decision to deny top academic entry into race to become Trinity s first female provost draconian
TCD has so far refused to disclose its reasons for not allowing Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey to go before its 800-plus electors
Trinity has so far refused to disclose its reasons for not allowing Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey to go before its 800-plus electors. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins
Mon, 08 Feb, 2021 - 20:30
Daniel McConnell, Political Editor
A decision to deny a top academic entry into the race to become Trinity’s first female provost has been blasted as “draconian and disproportionate”.
Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey, a French lecturer and known advocate for academic freedom was, following a hearing last Thursday of an internal committee, refused entry from the race to succeed Paddy Prendergast as head of Ireland’s oldest university.
FEATURE: Racing certainties abound at Clongowes Wood in Clane
Henry Bauress looks at the famous names from the racing world linked to the school
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Clongowes Wood College in Clane is one Ireland’s best known schools.
Set up in 1814 by the Jesuit order, it is the only seven-day male boarding school in the country.
Many well-known Irish men have studied there, including some with famous racing connections. Such students include Michael O’Leary; Patrick Mullins, son of Ireland’s leading trainer, Willie Mullins, and Pat Taaffe, son of trainer Tom Taaffe, and grandson of the late legendary Pat Taaffe, who rode, among other animals, the great Arkle.
Musician calls for better personal management of Covid-19
Covid-19 has given local performer and guitarist Paddy Prendergast an additional duty while strumming his guitar of keeping one eye on his dancing patrons.
The musician whose band – Itchyfeet – has played at numerous venues during the pandemic, is a supporter of the coronavirus health and safety regulations, but he believes that too many people are beginning to let down their guard.
“Everyone is looking to the government for direction but we’re all fairly sensible people. We know the things that we can do for ourselves that maybe go over and above what the government says,” he told Observer.