Public Accounts Committee hearing: Kerstin May resigned as UL chief last June and is on leave in new post as professor of visual culture
Kerstin Mey resigned as UL chief last June and is on leave in new post as professor of visual culture
‘Extraordinary level of brutality’: Boy sentenced for murdering Lorna Woodnutt and posting video on SnapchatMs Laffan said when an academic exercises a senior role in the university, it is “an absolute sectoral norm” that the person then has a sabbatical to “kick-start a research career and that’s what’s happening”.When asked how long was left on Ms Mey’s contract, Ms Laffan replied: “As of September 1st of this year, she has five years left, which does not bring her to full retirement age.
Ms Laffan said she had referred both transactions to An Garda Síochána and they were due to meet them next week. Comptroller and Auditor General Séamus McCarthy said a key concern was that more than five years on, the university “remains without a clear development and funding plan” for the former Dunnes Stores site at Honan’s Quay.
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