Higher Education

Absence of Rhebogue deal sponsor at UL hearing like ‘Hamlet without the prince’

UL’s interim president said he opted not to invite Andrew Flaherty to the Pac session, adding that the ‘appropriate team’ was in attendance

University of limerick: college has been plunged into crisis after admitting overspend on 20 houses in Rhebogue

The University of Limerick’s (UL) acting boss did not ask its chief commercial officer to attend an Oireachtas hearing centred around the college’s botched purchase of 20 houses, despite the fact that he sponsored the project.

Members of the Public Accounts Committee (Pac) quizzed UL officers on why Andrew Flaherty, its commercial lead and a member of its executive committee, did not attend the hearing, given that he was centrally involved in the decision to ...