User:rorynoonanDate:08/03/2013Time:09:03:02Edition:08/03/2013Frifriecho080313Page:1Color:
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013
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EDITION NO. 34,854
Serving Cork for 120 years
Page 17
Pres principal’s beer comments under fire
Cllr Brosnan: A lot of parents can’t afford fees
We’re going to make Cork work with e5m
By RONAN BAGNALL
By ALAN HEALY SMART motivated and positive Cork people who have a vision will be given a share of a €5m fund to make it happen. The Cork Foundation — a not-for-profit organisation set up by a group of local leading business and public figures — aims to raise €5m through contributions from the Cork diaspora, Cork-based businesses and philanthropists. It will then loan this money to startup companies. At the launch last night Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said: “This is a Cork concept that is new, that isn’t available anywhere else in the country and that we are going to make work.” ● See page three for more.
Ken Whyte, principal of e3,500-a-year PBC.
A CITY councillor has taken umbrage with the principal of Presentation Brothers College (PBC) for saying that parents of fee-paying students had chosen to invest in education rather than “going on the beer”.
Áine Collins, TD, North Cork West; Yvonne Barry, partner Quintas and the Foundation’s chairperson and Seán O’Driscoll chairman Glen Dimplex and chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Cork Foundation at the launch of their plan to drive job creation and economic prosperity in the region. Picture: Ger McCarthy
Fianna Fáil councillor Tim Brosnan, a member of the Cork VEC, has described remarks by Ken Whyte, the principal of the €3,500-a-year PBC, as “inappropriate.” Earlier this week, Mr Whyte said that fee-paying parents had chosen to invest in education rather than using their disposable income for other activities such as “going on the
Cllr Tim Brosnan: Wants Mr Whyte to withdraw remark. beer, or going on holiday.” He said a lot of parents had the resources to pay fees, but had chosen not to. But Councillor Brosnan said: “He is giving the impression that parents who do not pay fees might be choosing to go drinking instead. I think Mr Whyte should withdraw that remark. There are a lot of parents who simply cannot afford to pay fees.” ● Continued on page two.
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