ONE of my favourite people on God’s earth is Professor Joe Lee, the history professor from University College Cork.
A few years ago I shared a room with Joe in Seanad Eireann. We had regular jousts about the state of the nation and, occasionally, the value to the community of academics such as himself.
I was a sceptic about academics — their PhDs, their professorial titles, their doctorates and their apparently light workload.
