Minister steps in to keep boy in school

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin yesterday intervened to ensure that a boy with cerebral palsy can continue in mainstream education at his local school.

Daragh Ryan, aged eight, from Lansdowne Park, Limerick, leaves the Salesian Junior Infant School next summer, but the nearby JFK Primary School said it could not take him as it did not have money to build the special toilet and ramp which Daragh needs.

On a visit to JFK primary school, Ms Hanafin said she is going to provide the necessary funding to enable Daragh to continue in mainstream education at his own local school.