IRISH UNIVERSITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 226, 17 June 1908, Page 7

IRISH UNIVERSITIES.

« GOVERNMENT'S BIU. ATTACKED BY CARDINAL LOGUE. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. , BT TBLEGBAPH —PEE 63 ASSOCIATION —COPTBIOHT. (Rec. June 16, 9.56 p.m.) London, June 16. His Eminence Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, has . been presented with the Freedom of Cork. In a "speech' in . reply, Cardinal Logue condemned ,the Govornment's Irish Universities Bill, and also attacked the exclusion of Maynooth . College from the operation of the Bill. Mr. Birroll's Irish Universities Bill,' which received a generally favourable reception when introduced in the House of Commons, will institute two new universities,,one .at Roman Catholic Dublin, and one at Protestant Belfast. The Dublin university is to include a now college at Dublin, and the existing colleges at Cork and Galway. The Belfast university is to be Queen's College, Bolfast. " There will be no religious tests at either institution. The Royal University of Ireland, an examining body, is abolished. The universities will be ruled by senates. The Dublin Senate, mainly Roman Catholics, will consist of thirtysix members, of whom sovon must be Protestants; and the Belfast Senate (Protestant) must inctude one Roman Catholic." Royal College of St. Patrick, founded in 1795, is at Maynooth. It is the principal educational establishment for the olergy of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. It accommodates about 620 students, 350 of whom are maintained free.