Cross border John Hume University should be located in Derry Fine Gael TD Colm Burke believes a cross border John Hume Memorial university would right a wrong . Colm Burke TD 28 June, 2021 01:00
A north west cross border university could incorporate existing higher education facilities such as Letterkenny Institute of Technology (pictured).
Derry is the fifth largest city on the island of Ireland, closely matching Limerick in population size. Of the six largest cities on the Island, Derry is the only one without a university.
The decision in 1965 to establish Northern Ireland s second university, now Ulster University, in Coleraine and not in Derry was strongly influenced by political and sectarian considerations. Had the right decision been made in 1965, Northern Ireland might have followed a different path in the decades that followed. Nationalists would have seen that a politically frozen system might be capable of change by pe