A top academic has launched an outspoken attack on Sinn Fein after the party claimed the University of Ulster is holding up the expansion of its Magee campus. The UU’s Provost of Magee and Coleraine, Professor Deirdre Heenan, accused Sinn Fein of using “smoke and mirrors” tactics to disguise its own ineptitude. She lambasted the party’s “unhelpful spirit of rancour” and questioned why more wasn’t done to facilitate the expansion of Magee despite it being in the driving seat at Stormont. “Our critics in Sinn Fein speak as if they have no influence in society, as if they are a powerless, marginalised Opposition. They are not: they are the Government of Northern Ireland, and sit at the...
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