Editing Brian Lenihan Snr (section)

===Minister for Education===
In 1968, Lemass's successor [[Jack Lynch]] appointed Lenihan as Minister for Education. As Minister, he controversially proposed{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} the merger of Dublin's (then) two universities, [[Trinity College Dublin]] (TCD) and [[University College Dublin]] (UCD).{{efn|Both still exist, alongside a third since created, [[Dublin City University]], formerly the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin (NIHE, Dublin).}} The scheme was abandoned after mass opposition, Lenihan famously being forced to flee student protests in Trinity through a toilet window. Lenihan was also Minister during a 19-day secondary teachers' strike in February 1969.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1969/0224/Pg001.html|title=Secondary schools back today|date=24 February 1969|access-date=13 December 2009|newspaper=The Irish Times|archive-date=18 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018220539/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1969/0224/Pg001.html|url-status=live}}</ref>