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At the end of an unprecedented meeting last Thursday, a former University of Limerick (UL) governing authority member spoke of a culture underlying the college’s current crisis.
Dr Fergal O’Brien said that when he asked questions, he was seen a troublemaker. “One of the expressions that has entered the lexicon here is, ‘I take your silence as agreement’. My understanding, as an Irish person, is when I am being silent I am very much not agreeing with you,” Dr O’Brien told a room of hundreds of colleagues and students.
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