Promotion for teacher who sold IT to college

A teacher who set up a company to sell computers and other equipment to the college where he had control of technology purchases is to be made its deputy principal.

Richard O’Sullivan was head of the IT department at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa (CSN), a further education college in Cork City, when the irregularities occurred. They came to public attention in a 2011 Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) report about conflicts of interest and deficient tendering for IT equipment at the college.

He was disciplined and repaid almost €5,000 in profits from the operation of the company he and a colleague had set up solely to supply CSN.