Hill Street Views: Dundalk IT at a worrying crossroads
Opinion, views and commentary from former Democrat editor David Lynch
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These are certainly strange times up at DkIT; and not exclusively because of the Covid-19 pandemic either.
The Dublin Road-based institute is slowly, but surely becoming an outlier among its peers.
By next year several other ITs around the country are expected to have linked up and formed Technological Universities (or TUs) – these particular new bodies will likely be in the mid-west, north-west and south-east.
You’ll notice from that list a lack of a ‘north-east’ inclusion.
DkIT has, for reasons not entirely fully understandable, decided to go it alone and not forge ahead with joining up with other ITs at present to form a TU.
Hill Street Views: Thank god Dundalk still reads our paper
Opinion, views and commentary from former Democrat editor David Lynch
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It was probably around the summer of 1991, I guess. The country was still cresting the wave of post-Italia ‘90 euphoria and football was the only show in town.
At this stage I would have been around eight. I was lining out every week in the maroon colours of Seatown FC in the Dundalk Schoolboys League.
Back then a number of the coaches and managers within the club, at various levels, including one Brian McGuinness (a tremendous ambassador for underage football in the town and county) were producing a club newsletter every two weeks which included match reports and photographs of the club’s teams and their endeavours; along with fundraising news and the club’s lotto results.