School forced to enrol pupils goes to High Court

A NATIONAL school has brought a High Court challenge to a decision by a Department of Educationappointed body to force it to enrol two pupils although the school claims it does not have room for them.

St Molaga’s NS, Bremore, Balbriggan, Dublin, claims the decision by a committee which hears appeals against enrolment refusals, was irrational and wrong in law.

The school’s board of management was yesterday given leave by Mr Justice Michael Peart to seek a judicial review of the Appeals Committee’s decision, which arose out of an attempt by the parents of the two sibling children to enrol them earlier this year.