School search goes on for three boys

EFFORTS are continuing to find places in second-level schools in Galway for three boys who have not been in class since September because they were refused entry to first year.

The National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) has already helped their families apply for home tuition for the three boys, who are unrelated to each other but are all members of the Travelling community.

Their refused enrolment applications, two of them to the same, unnamed, second-level school, were appealed to the Department of Education under the Education Act. But those appeals were unsuccessful as the schools were found to have adhered to their admissions policies.