Order denies selling school to pay victims

AN Irish religious order has denied it is selling one of its schools in England to help pay off victims of clerical child abuse here.

Students from the Presentation College in Reading, Berkshire fly to Ireland today to plead with the Presentation Brothers to reverse their shock decision to close the fee-paying school from next year.

Four students, accompanied by a parent, will travel to the order’s base in Cork city this afternoon to hand in a petition signed by hundreds of pupils, past pupils and parents backing their plea.