Trinity reConnecteD
40 years after graduating from Trinity College Dublin, Gerry Foley catches up with fellow grads from across all disciplines to see how their careers and lives have turned out. Over the course of 12 episodes between January and the end of June , Gerry will be chatting to entrepreneurs, social workers, leading scientists, engineers, poets, academics, fellow journalists and senior clergy . Each episode will also feature 1982 news headlines from Ireland and abroad. Find out , what happened next to 'the class of 1982" on TrinityreConnecteD
Trinity reConnecteD
TrinityreConnecteD Episode 3...The Engineers
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Journalist Gerry Foley continues his series of conversations with fellow 1982 graduates from Trinity College Dublin. Here, he talks to 3 engineers, two of whom went straight from college to working in the mining industry in South Africa. They reflect on life under the apartheid regime and the huge changes since then. The third graduate who came to Ireland as a schoolboy from Sri Lanka talks of his love of the Irish language plus how Trinity taught him to problem solve whilst running his own company in Dubai. There are also stories of harsh corporal punishment dished out during school days. On a lighter note, they also chat about extremely short shorts on holiday in the USA !