Debs crackdown to see under-18s leave at 12.30am

UNDER-18s will have to leave their graduation function at a leading Cork hotel at 12.30am tonight following a garda crackdown on the licensing laws.

Some 211 students from a Tipperary secondary school who are due to attend their graduation ball at the Rochestown Park Hotel tonight will be the first affected by the crackdown.

Hotel managers across the city and county were last night examining the court decision relating to the city’s four-star Rochestown Park Hotel amid concerns it could affect the running of hundreds of second-level graduation events, weddings and other social functions, if gardaí in other districts take a similar approach for special exemption orders.