Act a license to discriminate, says INTO president

GAY and lesbian teachers have to lie about their private lives to get jobs according to the Irish National Teacher’s Organisation (INTO) president.

This situation means that the State is failing to meet the guarantees set out in the 1916 proclamation said INTO president, Sheila Nunan, last night.

She said the Employment Equality Act enshrines in law the right of religious-run schools to discriminate against potential or existing staff on the grounds of sexual orientation or the other eight grounds set out in the law.