'Don't put obstacles in front of my son': Disability funding awarded after public appeal

Eoghan Clonan has received an offer of a place to study Arts at Dublin Business School.

The father of a disabled boy has lamented the distress caused to him and his family after the initial "insane bureaucratic" decision by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) not to award disability support funding to his son's university as the institution was a private college. 

Dr Tom Clonan, an academic, journalist, and activist, said he and his son Eoghan, 19, were delighted when he received an offer from the Central Applications Office (CAO) to study Arts at Dublin Business School (DBS) after completing his Leaving Certificate after a challenging Covid-interrupted year.