Hotel to honour unpaid graduations

A HOTEL has stepped in yesterday to save the graduation celebrations of thousands of Cork students after an ‘events organiser’ failed to pay booking deposits.

Almost 3,000 students from 19 schools across the city and county had each paid €75 to Pat Brown for tickets to graduation balls he was supposed to arrange for them in the city’s Silversprings Moran Hotel.

They were facing disaster yesterday when it emerged that the former motor mechanic had used their money to pay hotel debts racked up from last year’s events.