A fee-paying school in Dublin is investigating reports that two of its pupils brought women back to their hotel on a school trip abroad and paid them for sex.

In a statement, the Department of Education said that schools have a responsibility to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place on school tours, and that such trips should have an educational benefit for students.

Why is there such an obsession with expensive school tours, and do students actually learn anything on them?

Brenda Power, columnist with the Irish Daily Mail and Sunday Times, and Harry McCann of trendster.ie discussed this.

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