At the beginning of March, one of the most high profile casualties of the February general election, Regina Doherty, started a three-month micro-credential course in financial technology at DCU.  Fresh from the bruising experience of losing her seat to Sinn Féin in the three seater constituency of Meath East (coming in behind her Fine Gael rival Helen McEntee), the outgoing TD and Minister for Employment Affairs & Social Protection did what anyone out of a job is advised to do: she began retraining for a life outside of politics.  The new direction didn’t last long. Within a week of the course beginning,…

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