Professor challenges college to ‘be radical’

A LEADING professor yesterday challenged his own college to change direction and stop striving for a better ranking in the world of academe.

Professor of International Politics at the University of Limerick (UL), Prof Peadar Kirby said the priority of the college instead should be the education of under-graduates about Ireland’s “remarkable neglect” of the environment.

In his thought-provoking inaugural address at UL, Prof Kirby said the Irish economic model is environmentally unsustainable, worsens poverty and should not be held up as an international example of progress.