Person: Mary Stokes

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Traveller case ruling ‘condemns children’

Traveller rights group Pavee Point has said another generation of Traveller children could be condemned to “poverty, unemployment and social exclusion” because of school enrolment policies.

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Travellers would thrive if they were given the opportunity

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Supreme Court to rule on school's admission policy after traveller's mother takes case

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Mother fails in legal challenge to school's admissions policy

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Sixmilebridge spans many traditions

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Traveller mother takes school-admission appeal to High Court

Rule favoured boys whose fathers were past pupils

YESTERDAY’S circuit court ruling hinged on the school’s “parental rule”, which favoured boys who had a parent who previously attended the school.

Tue, 26 Jul, 2011

Oireachtas ‘should look’ at positive discrimination

A JUDGE has called on the Oireachtas to examine the possibility of mandatory positive discrimination in schools to ensure no group — such as the Travelling community — is excluded from enrolment.

Tue, 26 Jul, 2011

Boy attends school away from home as he awaits hearing

A TRAVELLER boy who took an indirect discrimination case against a local secondary school is attending school away from his home town, a court heard yesterday.

Wed, 02 Feb, 2011

Traveller equality ruling ‘well thought out’

THE equality ruling which upheld a young Traveller boy’s right to attend his local secondary school was a “well thought-out and well-reasoned ruling” and will have implications far beyond the Travellers’ movement, the Irish National Teachers Organisation has said.

Sat, 11 Dec, 2010

Tribunal orders school to admit Traveller boy

A CLONMEL school has been ordered to admit a boy from the Traveller community after it was found the school had discriminated against him by not granting him a place.

Fri, 10 Dec, 2010

Soul searching unearths gems in festive treat

SENSUAL, gritty, raw, real — you could literally smell the soul in Counihan’s pub where Mary Stokes, arguably Ireland’s best blues singer, took to the stage several times over the weekend in a traditional series of free gigs as part of the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival.

Tue, 28 Oct, 2008

Woman gets €1,000 for discrimination

A WOMAN has been awarded €1,000 from a Chinese restaurant in Co Mayo after claiming she was discriminated against on Traveller grounds, even though she is not a Traveller.

Wed, 21 Nov, 2007