It's curtains if we don’t invest in education

Serious funding is required if the State is to produce the kind of education needed for a... dynamic economy, writes Michael Clifford

A new arrival from Mars during the week would probably conclude that third-level education in this country is thriving. Should the Martian have an interest in the topic, she could have tuned into the Taoiseach opening a new university in Dublin.

And not just any old university, but a technological university. Look at us in all our hi-tech splendour, catching the zeitgeist, ahead of the game.