A county councillor who voluntarily took a lie detector test has spoken of his “huge relief” after the High Court quashed his conviction for assault.

Some mothers will be forced to abandon an education course in midstream if the VEC goes ahead with plans to close a crèche in north Cork.

The Comptroller and Auditor General castigated County Cork VEC as well as Glanmire Community College for taking on a big risk in an emphatically one-sided deal.

Serious questions are raised by today’s Irish Examiner investigation into misuse of taxpayers’ money and lack of normal procedures at a State-funded Youthreach programme.

MEMBERS of the Cork County Vocational Education Committee (CCVEC) are seeking an urgent meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny to highlight their objection to a proposed amalgamation with the City of Cork VEC.

THE number of VECs is to be halved under radical streamlining measures announced by the Government yesterday.

CORK County Vocational Education Committee (VEC) is to be asked if it paid €1.9 million for land for new schools in Carrigaline which has not been zoned to accommodate them.

NEWLY released documents have shown the board of a Cork community college believed it was kept in the dark about a controversial contract which collapsed and exposed the school to a €162,000 debt.

A FURTHER row has broken out over a Cork County VEC selection – this time, internally, within the ranks of Fine Gael.

THE chief executive of County Cork VEC has broken his silence on its loss of substantial sums in a school computers deal and confirmed the state’s spending watchdog was probing the issue.

THE chairman of the Cork County VEC believes his organisation should take over the running of all primary schools within their target area.

IT could be the way ahead for schools of the future – providing their own power from a windfarm.

THIS is one constituency where there will definitely be changes of personnel.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is to be asked to explain why his Education Minister is refusing to reply to Cork County Council queries about a promise made by the Government five years ago to provide an extension for Clonakilty Community College.

FIANNA Fáil TD Denis O’Donovan has been caught unawares by a party colleague seeking to challenge him for the right to represent the party in the Cork South West constituency at the next general election.

THE MOTHER of a 13-year-old boy yesterday said he was suspended from school for two days simply because he broke wind in a classroom.