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.

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).