Maynooth professor challenges university president's handling of academic row

Prof. Nolan, who has a high public profile through his current role as chair of Nphet’s modelling group, is due to stand down as president of Maynooth University in the autumn.

A former professor at Maynooth University said he "strongly disagreed" with the conclusion of the college’s president, Philip Nolan, that the professional relationship between two senior academics had broken down and the need to move one of the parties to a different role where they had no teaching or research work.

Paul Donovan, emeritus associate professor at the Maynooth University’s School of Business, told a hearing of the Labour Court that he also disagreed with Prof Nolan’s view that a row between the two academics, Robert Galavan and Peter McNamara, was affecting the work of the school.