Yesterday was a sad day for NUI Maynooth as it was the last day that the great Brian Gormley would be counted as a member of staff of NUIM. Brian is off for a very important job in DIT and I’m sure you’ll all join me in wishing him the very best.

His going away do was last night and I was glad to see so many staff and students from so many academic and service department there. Even the speeches were good and you could tell that it was more than just the standard platitudes, people were genuinely sorry to see Brian go. I think the president summed up how great a job Brian did as Director of Student Services when he informed us all that the college would be hiring two people to replace Brian. Personally I wonder will that be enough?!

Farewell Brian, Maynooth will miss you!