UL President does not deserve pity for her Oireachtas performance

President of the University of Limerick, Professor Kerstin Mey's answers were at best inadequate, at worst incoherent, writes Cianan Brennan

President of the University of Limerick, Professor Kerstin Mey.

While watching a quite remarkable session of the Public Accounts Committee, the uninitiated might have been tempted to feel sorry for the president of the University of Limerick, Professor Kerstin Mey.

Over the course of a torrid three hours, Prof Mey was questioned aggressively and at length about the seemingly bottomless pit of governance failures that is UL.