To be honest....it was'nt my decision. Im only 19 and because this is such an expensive career, i needed help from my parents to fund it. The only snag was they wanted me to go to PTC. I was glad i did the ppl in cork though because i got some good experience in IFR conditions ehm (Keep it on the QT)
Atlantic have started the ATPL course and to the best of my knowledge it is about €56k.