Did you know that Cinderella’s stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds? Really. And that Rumpelstiltskin ripped himself in half? And that in “The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage,” a mouse, a bird, and a sausage all talk to each other? (Okay, I guess that one’s not ...
Nevertheless, as we come to the end of our story of widening participation and increasing access of non-traditional students in Irish HE, it is not possible to leave with: "and they all lived happily ever after!" This is no fairy tale with a happy ending, after all even if traditional ...