The staff Union at TU Dublin is up in arms, voting no confidence in its president as the technological university recorded an €8.6 million annual deficit. Last week, UCC revealed its annual deficit had doubled to €23 million. The University of Limerick, my employer, continues to face now decade-old corporate governance woes with revelations last week of a new €5.2 million overvaluation on a new property purchase. As I write these words, multiple letters have been written asking UL’s president to resign. I have signed two of them.  It is tempting to focus on these bad news stories, ignoring all…