http://www.dcu.ie/info/statutes/statute3.shtml
The new statute, on the other hand, cannot be accessed by any member of the public who pays for DCU, a public university, to assess its conformity with Irish law, as he will see if he tries to access it;
http://www.dcu.ie/info/policies/suspension_and_dismissal_employees.pdf
(26 Dec 2011 - we are told that statute no3 was "superseded" in 2010
Luckily the internet archive keeps track of such things and can confirm that this is not the case;
http://web.archive.org/web/20110611202122/http://www.dcu.ie/info/statutes/index.shtml
So, by June 11 2011 there still is NO mention of statute no 5 - nor is there one on Dec 14 2010;
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20101015000000*/http://www.dcu.ie/info/statutes/index.shtml
So DCU did NOT supersede the statute in 2010 - unless it takes a year for Niall O'Leary, their web guy, to do very basic stuff.
Incidentally, the "new statute" is probably this illegal one;
http://academictenure.blogspot.com/2011/03/dcus-illegal-disciplinary-statute-still.html
I can confirm that Ruairi Quinn has been lobbied on this issue from inside the Labour party and that may have caused the change. For me, this is mission accomplished; and I can also confirm that it was I who initially advised Paul Cahill in 2006, and who got him the barrister for his successful injunction case which started everything)
DCU has refused to settle my case in any way that does justice to the dignity of scholarship. It has spent several millions of taxpayers' money in attempting to destroy my life, and that of my two daughters and long-time partner, the esteemed broadcaster and brilliant jazz artist Melanie O'Reilly. Not only that; through their legal firm, Arthur Cox, they had refused to reschedule the case, and were insisting that I risk my work visa here in the USA to return in Jan 2012.
Readers will remember that my case went into limbo in 2004 - 2009 because of a wholly specious and legally incorrect argument made by Cox that a High Court summons, drawn up by Justice Minister Alan Shatter's firm, pre-empted the case. We shall bring Ms O'Mahony of the EAT back to explain this in due course. Moreover, my case had already been delayed because IBEC refused to represent DCU from 2003, when the IBEC rep Graham Fagan got disgusted at DCU's refusal to put witnesses on the stand.
Yesterday - 21 December 2011 - the circuit court judge laughed DCU out of court, seeing their behaviour for the bullying and victimization that it is. This is of course not the first time that Cox and Mallon for DCU have been laughed out of court, and our learned friends must be wondering whether they are some kind of perverse and highly taxpayer-toxic standup act
Of course, the world is moving on as the Irish state focuses on its specialty; diverting public money from workers (and their descendents) to large law firms and grossly incompetent bureaucrats. For, gentle readers, the Fall 2011 Stanford AI course with its 120,00o students was a success; the sister course in machine learning had a sign-up of 80,000, and Stanford will have 16 courses, with perhaps a million registered, by next spring as the bottom of the ML page promises;
http://jan2012.ml-class.org/
MIT have responded in panic with a vaporware announcement that indicates they too realize that this is the future;
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-faq-1219.html
Ironically, of course, I have been at Stanford for a decade, have had courses accredited there, and these courses could attract massive revenue for Ireland. It may be better, however, if the state continues its current suicidal trajectory until it collapses sufficiently that we can rebuild using the innate genius of Irish civil society.
Seán O Nualláin Ph.D. Stanford
Stanford University 22u Nollag 2011
PS I posted what I think is the "new" statute at http://academictenure.blogspot.com/2011/01/dcus-new-illegal-statute.html and this is the last page;
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