Walking into a meeting with the minister for education, Chuck Feeney knew what he wanted. He and his team at Atlantic Philanthropies were trying to give €4.4 million to build a world-class science building at the University of Limerick.  But they wanted the government to match the funding and were hitting a roadblock in the form of Ruairi Quinn, the then minister, who had announced he would not be building third-level infrastructure.  It was a matter of getting Quinn to change his mind and not lose face.  Feeney had brought John Healy, Atlantic’s global director of strategic learning and evaluation,…

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