Despite the academic year winding down weeks earlier, the TU Dublin campus in Grangegorman was full of life on June 1, 2023 – but with suits rather than students. This included then-public expenditure minister Paschal Donohoe who, alongside TU Dublin president David FitzPatrick, cut the proverbial ribbon on two new major campus buildings.  The East Quad and Central Quad cost €220 million – mainly funded through the sale of part of the former DIT site on Aungier Street. The buildings were the centrepiece of the first phase of the largest capital investment in Irish higher education in over a century…