Almost 40 UCC academics last night welcomed the decision to withdraw an invitation to British far-right leader Nick Griffin to take part in a university debate on free speech.

BESTSELLING author Terry Pratchett will join the staff at Trinity College Dublin next week as an adjunct professor in the School of English.

Queen’s University Belfast today agreed a controversial plan to cut more than 100 academic and research jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

Fresh calls were made today for the Hill of Tara to be protected during the building of the controversial M3 motorway.

DR COLMÁN ETCHINGHAM of NUI Maynooth asks why rural communities should be subjected to the construction of wind generators? (Irish Examiner letters, November 18).

IN 1990, the Public Records Office released the files of the young men (some of them boys of no more than 16 or 17 years of age) executed by the British Army for desertion and allied breaches of military discipline in the First World War.

WE live in a world where it seems legitimate to spread democracy and freedom by dropping bombs (as recently on the citizens of Baghdad), or to express grievances by the slaughter of innocent travellers (as recently in Madrid).