Irish summer schools must move with times

It’s Tuesday night and dotted around the bar is an EU commissioner, a former education minister, the secretary general of a government department as well as a scattering of local and national politicians.

But this is not the marble-clad counter of some sumptuous five-star hotel close to Leinster House, instead the location is an isolated village in wildest Donegal.

It’s midnight on the third day of the annual MacGill Summer School in Glenties.