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A SCHOOL principal will today resume her High Court battle with Education Minister Ruairi Quinn after he sought to dismiss her on the strength of a controversial and costly report into her running of a Kilkenny school.

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AN inquiry into the performance of a secondary school principal in Kilkenny is to be held in the coming months.

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A SCHOOL principal is to be the subject of an inquiry after Education Minister Mary Hanafin ruled that the woman could not be suspended by County Kilkenny Vocational Education Committee (VEC).

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