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Heartbroken mum of young man who died in cliff fall tells funeral he ‘succeeded in squashing 100 years into 23’
Ann Mooney
Updated: 17:22, 28 Apr 2021
A STUDENT who died in a cliff fall last weekend “succeeded in squashing 100 years into 23 years”, his heartbroken mum told mourners at his funeral mass on what would have been his 23rd birthday today.
Maura King, her husband Eamonn and daughter Aine stood on the altar close to their son Conor’s coffin this morning as she said: “Happy 23rd birthday our beautiful boy”.
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The hearse leaves the church carrying Conor King s body as friends form a guard of honour
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Delegate Mary Quaid told the conference she lost her son on a June Bank Holiday, but if the tragedy had occurred during the school year, she wouldn t have been able to return to work.
Bill Kavanagh, a lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology, said he proposed this motion after a colleague, whose wife was terminally ill, asked HR about time off.
He was told he would only get five days off after she passed away. You have to look at how it affects people. I would like to support this motion and redouble our efforts to get something done on it, Mr Kavanagh said.
But the election of a female head at Ireland’s oldest and most prestigious university due to be picked from an all-female short list of three senior scholars on April 7 will be the most momentous female appointment so far.
“We’ve seen a very significant transformation with the appointment of three female leaders in the past year, but we need to keep pushing for further improvements across the sector,” said Orla Feely, vice president for research at University College Dublin, who has backed the recently announced Science Foundation Ireland strategy that would seek to ensure that 35 percent of annual principal investigator grants go to women.
Celebrated architect John Meagher dies aged 73 Co-founder of de Blacam and Meagher Architects was ‘invaluable to our culture’
Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 10:44
The death has occurred of architect John Meagher, one of the founders of the well-known firm de Blacam and Meagher.
Mr Meagher, who died aged 73, studied at the Dublin Institute of Technology school of architecture (1966-71) and at Helsinki University of Technology school of architecture (1971-72).
He established de Blacam and Meagher Architects with Shane de Blacam in 1976.
In 2010 de Blacam and Meagher represented Ireland at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice .
In 2018 the firm received the outstanding contribution to architecture prize at the Building and Architect of the Year Awards.