History
The school is located in a modern three-story building on the main UCD campus at Belfield, Dublin, and is named after Lochlann Quinn, the chairman of Allied Irish Bank, who was one of the main financial contributors to the school. Mr.Quinn graduated from UCD with a BComm in 1962. Other donors included Philip Berber of CyberCorp, Bank of Ireland, AIB, Irish Life & Permanent, Accenture, KPMG, PwC, Dunnes Stores and Ernst & Young.
When The School opened in 2002, it claimed to be the only business school in Europe with a specific focus on technology and e-learning. All students are required to own specially-configured wireless laptops, with teaching structured around the use of wireless network.
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