Limerick schools accused of exclusion

WHILE Anthony Quinn’s friends have been going to classes for the last week, he has been cutting grass in the neighbourhood because he has been unable get a place in a local secondary school.

The 14-year-old from Garryowen in Limerick finished primary school in June 2003, but three schools turned him down.

"Most of my friends are in secondary school but I just hang around getting bored. I cut grass and I play my computer but I'd like to go to school," he said.