Boy attends school away from home as he awaits hearing

A TRAVELLER boy who took an indirect discrimination case against a local secondary school is attending school away from his home town, a court heard yesterday.

John Stokes, aged 13, of Clonmel, Co Tipperary, successfully brought the CBS High School in Clonmel to the Equality Tribunal last year over the school’s admissions policy.

However, an appeal by the school against the tribunal’s ruling is now before the circuit court and will not be heard until near the end of the school year.