It is never too late to learn

Customs expert graduates with PhD aged 80. Doc Tom Walsh is a role model for us all. Life is about learning, learning is life. It is never too late for anything. Tom Walsh is an example to follow. I have had the fortune of meeting Tom in the past.

It’s not every day that a university finds itself awarding a PhD to a student who has written one of the standard texts on their course but that’s exactly the position that academics in University College Cork found themselves in this week when awarding a doctorate to 80 year old Tom Walsh.

Tom, or Doc Walsh as he’s been known ever since playing a doctor in a school play as a ten year old in his native Waterford, is a leading authority on international customs law and now he has just graduated with a PhD in the field after successfully completing his doctorate in just two years.

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Source: TheIrishTmes