Irish students in demand from ‘sugar daddies’ willing to pay fees

HUNDREDS of hard-up Irish students are secretly arranging short-term relationships with loaded “sugar daddies” to pay their way through college.

Attractive Irish undergraduates are in huge demand from wealthy, middle-aged Americans, who are willing to pay their tuition fees, clear their student debts and pay them thousands of euro a month in exchange for a brief no-strings-attached fling.

But the so-called “college sugar babies” are also being paired off with rich Irish businessmen, often twice or even three times their age, with whom they work out a short-term arrangement that suits both parties.