Colleges to face grilling on antisocial students

The governing bodies of UCC and CIT are to be asked to attend the next meeting of Cork City’s Joint Policing Committee to answer allegations that they are not doing enough to counter the drink-fuelled antisocial behaviour of their students.

Members of the JPC were told at a meeting in City Hall yesterday that students were running amok and were regularly “urinating, defecating and copulating” in people’s front gardens.

Cllr Michael Ahern said he did not believe the third-level authorities ever took the trouble to monitor the extent of bad behaviour on the streets of the city by students, and added it was about time they did so.