Emer O'Neill: ‘There has never been a black principal in Ireland’

Activist and teacher Emer O’Neill invited to speak with Department of Education after International Women's Day talk

Emer O'Neill (centre) with fellow speakers Edel Coffey, Dr Tara Shine, Caroline Casey and MC Esther McCarthy at the Irish Examiner International Women’s Day Networking Breakfast at the River Lee Hotel, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

After speaking about representation and diversity at the Irish Examiner’s breakfast event on International Women’s Day, activist Emer O’Neill says she has been contacted by the Department of Education to speak to a steering committee.

After revealing startling information about diversity among principals as well as details of an anti-racism policy for which she is petitioning, Ms O’Neill says she was contacted by a representative of Norma Foley TD while on her way home from the event.