Traveller equality ruling ‘well thought out’

THE equality ruling which upheld a young Traveller boy’s right to attend his local secondary school was a “well thought-out and well-reasoned ruling” and will have implications far beyond the Travellers’ movement, the Irish National Teachers Organisation has said.

A spokesperson for the largest teachers’ union in Ireland welcomed the ruling saying it was “very interesting and very good”.

“Schools do these things in good faith but they have to be tested.