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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.

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REVELATIONS of a large debt heaped on County Cork VEC due to the collapse of a private computer company only came to light because of an anonymous tip-off to a powerful Dáil committee.

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