Foreign student firm scoops award

A LIMERICK woman who brings hundreds of foreign students to north Cork every year to learn English, has won a major award for rural business.

Bernie Carroll from Bruree in Limerick operates her business from Charleville, Co Cork.

She won the top business prize in the 2011 JFC Innovation Awards for her company — Student Programmes Ireland — which places young foreign students in secondary schools to help them perfect their English.