Author masters his education 40 years after earning his infamy

BAD boy of Irish writing, Lee Dunne, yesterday fulfilled a half-century-old promise to himself by graduating with his first ever educational qualification.

Dunne, who so far has had to make do with the title of Ireland’s most banned author, can now refer to himself by the rather grander appellation of Masters of Screenwriting, Shakespeare and Greek Tragedy.

The veteran writer, who turns 70 next month, achieved the feat at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design where he enrolled in formal classes for the first time since leaving school at the age of 13.