Hanafin to receive report on principal

THE report of an inquiry into the performance of a Kilkenny second-level school principal’s performance is expected to be delivered to Education Minister Mary Hanafin before the end of the year.

Among the allegations facing Cathy McSorley, principal of Kilkenny City Vocational School, is that she paid students to turn up and that she failed to comply with the orders of County Kilkenny Vocational Education Committee (VEC), which manages the school.

Ms McSorley has at all times rejected any claims of wrongdoing and the inquiry was only set up after she secured a High Court injunction last year preventing the VEC from suspending her.