Over €400,000 may have to be written off by the Limerick and Clare Education Training Board (ETB) as a result of weaknesses in the control of capital projects by the former County of Limerick VEC.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn insists he will still have capital assets included in deciding student grant applications, despite opposition of Fine Gael to the plan.

AN army bomb disposal yesterday carried out a controlled explosion at a Co Limerick secondary school after a chemical stored in the science room was found to be in a dangerous condition.