Family v State: ‘We’re not looking for it all, just what he needs’

Irish Examiner reporter, Noel Baker, meets a group of parents who are uniting in a fight for their children’s education.

SEÁN SHEEHAN sits in the back garden of his house in Fermoy, legs crossed, studying the iPad on his lap and looking every bit a man at ease.

It prompts you to think of the old line about ‘a penny for your thoughts’, but the five-year-old’s mother, Susan, would probably pay a lot more. Seán has autism and is non-verbal, and now he faces the prospect of a new school place this coming September.