1923

School of agriculture

Professor Rishworth, of University College, Galway, has been the first to come to grips with the problem of establishing a school of agriculture in the western university.

Whether his scheme is the best of all possible schemes is a matter for discussion and debate. At any rate, it is the first definite plan that has been put forward, and it has one supreme advantage that should commend it to a country and to a Government that are forced for the time being to go on “short commons.”

It will not entail additional expenditure: it will merely involve a regrouping of the existing staffs. Professor Rishworth, in his general conclusions, points to the advantages that a school of agriculture in the West would bring about.

In our view, the primary advantage would be the linking up of University College with the life of the community from which it must hope to draw its students, and the co-ordination of itinerant instruction with the college courses.

As the professor points out, the very best brains are required in agriculture to-day. It is our chief, practically our sole, industry. By it we must live.

Pictured: Residents of Corrib Park estate in Galway City on picket duty on October 9, 1975, protesting against heavy traffic passing through their area to access a building site. They took the action because they said roads were being damaged by heavy machinery, drains were being blocked, there was additional danger to children and dirt from the roads was being brought into homes.