Schools not dealing with ‘cyber bullying’

Irish schools fail children by not dealing robustly with cyber-bullying, “one of the biggest challenges facing schools”, according to the special rapporteur on child protection.

Geoffrey Shannon told an audience of educators and lawyers, over the weekend, that the legislation on cyberbullying was “not fit-for-purpose”.

“I do not think the law has caught up with the technology,” he told a conference on education and the law at St Angela’s College, Sligo.