AS a member of FEE (Free Education for Everyone) in Maynooth, and as a concerned student, I would like to respond to Ryle Dwyer’s column headlined ‘Did highly paid academics object because Bertie would do it for free?’ (November 28).

Angry students protested in NUI Maynooth today over former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s appointment as visiting professor in mediation and conflict studies.

FREE Education for Everyone, with the inapt acronym FEE, organised up to 1,000 student signatures in protest against the appointment of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a visiting professor at NUI Maynooth (NUIM). They called on the college authorities to suspend the appointment, at least until after the publication of the Mahon tribunal report.

DOCTOR Deejay should prove hard enough to beat in the Green Fee Vouchers three-year-old Maiden Hurdle at Gowran Park today, should the meeting survive an 8am inspection.

A GROUP of students occupied the Department of Finance’s headquarters in Dublin yesterday to highlight their opposition to the Government’s proposals to reintroduce third-level fees and other education cutbacks announced in the recent budget.

A Government minister today insisted he was right to restrain a protesting student after a noisy demonstration over education cutbacks turned nasty.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ICAI) has indicated its support for two publications this week from the Federation of European Accountants (FEE) on audit issues.

The Value Added Tax (VAT) system needs a radical overhaul if business in the newly expanded European Union is to prosper, it was claimed today.

The European Federation of Accountants (FEE) has called for a co-ordination body to ensure a level playing field for enforcement of accountancy procedures.

The representative body of the European accounting profession has welcomed the announcement of major reform proposals by IFAC, the International Federation of Accountants.