Is the snobbishness so much between IT’s and Universities that they don’t check out each other’s full time staff lists? What did Athlone Insitute for Technology think that Fergal O’Malley was doing in Galway? Shopping? NUIG wouldn’t notice too much – heads of department get lots of time off to be heads of department, and research? Well that means that one can get Phd students and post doc’s to do it for you. Doesn’t it? Either than or he was on the Berocca!

All in all, it’s been a bad year for Athlone Institute of Technology, first Niall McElwee who was found guilty of lewd behaviour and didn’t tell his employers for 3 years and they didn’t find out that the head of child and youth care learning centre there had a criminal record. Now the double jobbing engineering lecturer with two pensions is exposed. Anyone thought of the students in all this?