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FORMER PRESIDENT MARY McAleese has been appointed a professor in Irish studies at a university in London.
Dr McAleese is joining St Mary’s University in Twickenham, the largest Catholic college in the UK with around 5,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
As part of her new role, Dr McAleese will teach on the MA in Irish Studies course, give a keynote lecture, and take part in a programme of public conversations.
She will take up her position in the academic year beginning September 2015.
Dr McAleese, who served as president of Ireland between 1997 and 2011, said she was “delighted” to join St Mary’s and meet students and staff at the university.
“I particularly look forward to working closely with the excellent team at [the] Centre for Irish Studies as it researches the continuing development of Anglo-Irish relations,” she said.
Since her term as president ended, Dr McAleese has graduated from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome with a degree in canon law and she is currently completing a doctorate on the subject.
Before becoming president she was an academic, serving as the first female Pro Vice-Chancellor at Queen’s University and the Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin.
“It’s a huge honour for us to appoint such a distinguished and respected public figure to our staff here at St Mary’s,” the university’s vice-chancellor Francis Campbell said.
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Wow! Now even the bins are spying on us. All we need now is for public toilets to record all our “movements” and the colour of our underwear and big brother will know all it possibly could about us. Who needs privacy?!
Good one shirley, “movements” lol!!
They likely already do. Think about the movement activated flushes and the movement activated lights.
*may or may not be serious, I’ll let you decide.
Ha ha, nice one Shirley, what colour is your under pants indeed………?
Public toilets testing your ‘movements’ has been proposed to screen for health problems. I think it would be a great idea really, provided the information was confidentially passed to a smart phone or emailed to you.
What underpants? Commando is the only way to go in this weather!
Good one Shirley.
“Colour of your underwear”..hmm
What if….What if the bins refuse to stop collecting data?
And so it begins…..
I love London, it’s my 34th favorite place in the world to be.
You’re my 34th favourite poster on the Journal.ie
That’s the 27th time somebody has said that to me
It would never work here – no bins.
So why, with so much surveillance, can’t they find the idiots who damaged signals so the Dart is out of action this morning
Those bins are in London
My god why cant a bin just collect rubbish? What next, laptops that recycle your lunch waste!?
My emails are already intercepted by my laptop and smartphone. Shocking.
The difference between hits on a website and this scenario is people are aware of cookies on their computer and informed again each time they go into a new website. Ya wouldn’t really be expecting a bin to be spying on you. A whole new meaning to bin it your way.
and strictly speaking web-sites aren’t supposed to share this with one another .. which is the focus of the rather big “Do Not Track” privacy-debate that is currently ongoing on the web …
How are people going to know if its collecting their data already?
How is the average Joe going to know they are going to turn it on or off in any case?
The government possibly already has this technology in bloody street lamps and we don’t know about it!
government = your elected representatives who have a security mandate (for better or worse)
Renew = a private enterprise, who may or may not flip your identity over to any bidder if times get tough
So now they will throw the bins in the rubbish, like a Big Brother has been!
Spooooky I means
Well I know “THEY” are spying on me. “THEY” keep taking money out of my pay cheque whether I like it or not.
Almost darlik like…sooooooky!
Just for future reference, it’s dalek.
Minority report.
Maybe they want to collect the parts for recycling. It is a good idea because some parts of phone are radio active.
Read the article again there chap.
Yes. But the same level of surveillance exists here in Ireland
If you think we have the same level of surveillance as they have in the UK, especially London, you’re either seriously paranoid or you’ve never visited the neighbours.
Most, if not all phone masts, are fitted with surveillance equipment here
Have you even read the article ???
My post was for Francis
You couldn’t piss crooked without them knowing it.
Has bins..
It looks like a Dalek prototype.
WTF!?
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