Cianan Brennan: UL is its own worst enemy in a PR war

For the University of Limerick, amid an apparently endless saga of governance issues, sorry seems to be the hardest word

University of Limerick president Kerstin Mey. Picture: Sean Curtin True Media

To say it’s been a rough few years for the University of Limerick would be something of an understatement. Really, it’s been a harrowing decade or more.

The subject of countless whistleblower disclosures, external reports, and governance scandals, all everyone involved with the place wants, regardless of their viewpoint, is for a clean slate, a chance to move on from the madness of the past 10 years.