The Sunday Interview: Jim Browne

NUIG Galway is emerging from the glare of publicity surrounding its recent loss at the Equality Tribunal. Its president, Jim Browne, talks about future funding, unions and affirmative action

Jim Browne
Jim Browne

Jim Browne is in a hurry, in more ways than one. He strides into the dining room of

the Quad, the oldest building on the 260-acre NUIG campus, with a copy of the

university’s new five-year strategic plan under his arm.

The university’s president wastes little time on pleasantries; he has to be

somewhere in 40 minutes, he says, so I can eat while he talks. And so, as coffee is

poured and ...