But as was the case with former presidents Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese, it's been clear that a rationalising of Irish-English relationships has been high on President Higgins's agenda.
But land with the rest of the bunch in a "vmbo" (vocational education) school, and your chances of making it to university are slim.Like many an apparently archaic and arbitrary institution, the Citotoets began its life as a rationalising reform.
America said it would consider "the broad range of options".The British, French and German governments told European aerospace and defence-electronics companies to come up with a "rationalise or die" plan in order to compete better with America's defence industries, which have restructured radically since the end of the cold war.
Susan Wendell, a Canadian sociologist with chronic fatigue syndrome, writes that this kind of thinking "may be part of a rationalising rejection of one's former, healthy self, in order to adjust to a new body and a new way of life".
They also downgraded the importance of sexuality to their wellbeing, which might reflect a rationalising adjustment to the lack of an available sexual partner.
Rather than continuing to innovate through measurement, the social sector as a whole rationalised itself into a corner.
Last week, Tim Congdon, an influential economist and former Thatcherite outrider, also announced he would be voting UKIP "unless the Tories drop Mr Cameron and all his misguided baggage (a badly rationalised environmentalism, third world do-goodism, holier-than-thou 'social inclusiveness' and the rest)".
A clearly rationalised and communicated one year donor deferral is likely to be welcomed by most men who have sex with men.
At the same time, the scope such views provide for individualised approaches to coping with chronic illness are also related to the need for establishing a communicatively rationalised experience of chronic illness.
