IPPN

Published: 05 July 2011

FOR the seventh successive summer the principal of Kilkenny City Vocational School saw off her Leaving Certificate students under a dark cloud.

This shadow has lasted for almost 2,200 days and cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of euro.

And all this just to produce a 37-page interim report into the performance of one woman’s first four years as principal of a small city "tech".

This document has still to be published and the Department of Education has no idea when the inquiry will be ready for public consumption.