Protest student may be expelled

A 17-YEAR-OLD Leaving Certificate student is facing expulsion after leading school friends in an anti-budget protest.

On Tuesday the pupil from Dublin’s Moyle Park College in Clondalkin organised a march by up to 20 of his fellow pupils to the office of Government chief whip John Curran to protest at education cutbacks.

This afternoon the student faces a meeting of his school’s disciplinary board, accused of “not being amenable to any direction and behaviour” which “resulted in a serious health and safety risk”. If the board, which includes the school principal and deputy principal, decide against him the young man, described as a “model student”, faces possible expulsion.