Girl given green light to enrol in Cork boys’ school

A GIRL will be allowed attend an all-boys second level school for the first time, following a Department of Education decision to overturn the board’s refusal to enrol her.

Girl given green light to enrol in Cork boys’ school

However, the ruling in favour of the girl’s appeal is not likely to lead to all single-sex schools opening their doors to boys and girls, as it was based on a technicality.

Nagle Community College in the Cork suburb of Mahon last March refused to enrol the local girl for first year in September, on the grounds that it had been a boys’ school since it first opened in 1981, a decision backed by City of Cork Vocational Education Committee (VEC).

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