Ray Griffin: Creating a university in the South-East is all about stroke politics, not education

Nobody in the region believes that the decade long stroke of preventing the South-East regions economic and social progress is really over

One of the main buildings on the campus of Waterford Institute of Technology; in 2005, the Cabinet rejected WIT's application to become a full university.  Picture: Denis Minihane

The Italians had Machiavelli to explain their political culture, France had Richelieu and we had Paddy O’Carroll, the late, great UCC sociologist. 

His paper 'Strokes, cute hoors and sneaking regarders' is still the best user manual for Irish politics.