US student fund an obscene waste of money

THE Government is currently passing legislation to fund the US-Ireland Alliance to administer scholarships for US students here. This will cost €20 million and fund approximately 60 students for more than five years.

That means that it will cost approximately €4 million to send 12 students to Ireland in a year. As they say in the US, “do the math”.

That works out at more than €330,000 for one student to spend a year in Ireland “learning about our history, conflict, etc”.