Education
Haire was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at Worcester College, University of Oxford, where he studied on a scholarship classics and theology and was a rower, graduating with a B.A. (Hons) and M.A. in theology.
He undertook management training in Britain and Europe, then postgraduate theological studies in Leiden, Birmingham and Belfast. His Ph.D. in theology is from the University of Birmingham.
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