The Battle for Tipperary Institute

“Even with the greatest number of recent graduates and the highest amount of incoming students in a decade, Tipperary Institute faces real scrutiny by the Irish government. The government has spent more than €100 million on third level education in County Tipperary since 2009. Using just an accountant’s weighing scales, the McCarthy report says the college should be closed and its property sold off. As reported on local radio, in regional newspapers and by several national broadsheets, the locals are outraged …” (more)

[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View, 8 October]

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