Irish student forced to pay almost €11,000 in fees

AN Irish teenager has had to pay college fees of almost €11,000 because of Government rules on who pays for third level education.

Arjun Mediratta was born in Sligo 17 years ago but moved back to northern India with his parents when he was five.

He begins a business studies degree course at University of Limerick next week after being offered a place earlier this summer. But Arjun’s uncle Vinod Bajaj expected he would be charged fees applicable to EU citizens, which would only have been around €3,800.