Garda probe into missing €250k at private school

A GARDA investigation has been launched into a top private school in one of the country’s most expensive areas after almost €250,000 went missing from its accounts.

St Michael’s College in the millionaire-row Ailesbury Road area of south Dublin city, has confirmed an “apparent misappropriation of funds has been uncovered”.

Enrolment at the private school, which in recent years has regularly been placed among Ireland’s most sought-after ‘feeder’ schools for third-level institutions, costs the families of its 6,000 day-school pupils more than €4,300 a year. As such, its total enrolment income exceeds €2.5 million every year.