Sir, – A proposal to make UCD the second college (after Trinity) of the University of Dublin would have my wholehearted support if it meant that UCD adopted some of TCD’s practices, such as direct election of the provost/president by the academic staff, rather than the secretive and undemocratic system imposed on the staff in UCD.
The idea of fellowship is also a good one, although given that the fellows of Trinity receive the post-nominal letters “FTCD”, it is immediately obvious why such a thing would be difficult to implement in UCD. – Yours, etc,