Eight ‘bullying’ complaints at CIT

Cork Institute of Technology has confirmed it had eight complaints relating to issues such as bullying and harassment over a three-year period, having earlier said there were none.

Responding to a Freedom of Information request from the Irish Examinerto all publicly-funded third levels institutions, CIT was alone in stating it had had no complaints relating to bullying in the three-year period 2013 to 2015, inclusive.

A number of people associated with CIT, afterwards, contacted this newspaper expressing surprise at the response.