IT’S all about attitude and it’s never too late.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese will make history next Monday when she becomes the first president to visit an island off the southwest coast.

ONE of Ireland’s most southerly communities has become the Island of Paint and Scholars after the first graduates of an offshore degree programme earned their scrolls yesterday.

FORGET UCC, CIT or even Trinity — in what is being hailed as a major education breakthrough, a small island off the West Cork coast is now the venue for a third-level degree.