Madam, - Danny O'Hare's plea for "no more universities" is breathtaking in its hypocrisy (Education Today, April 8th). Did he believe "four's enough!" when he steered NIHE Dublin towards its upgrading to Dublin City University in 1989, even though we already had five universities for 3.5 million people?
If Dr O'Hare truly believes his own guff, would his time not be better spent campaigning for a merger of the four universities in the academically congested greater Dublin region (TCD, UCD, NUI Maynooth and DCU) to free up capacity for needier regions of the country? - Yours, etc,
BARRY FLEMING, The Sycamores, Dunmore Road, Waterford.