Daughter must go to school

A mother has been warned she faces jail unless she manages to send her 15-year-old daughter to school in what the court heard was among “the worst” school attendance records ever to come before the courts.

The Polish woman had breached a notice under the Education Welfare Act of Feb 27 last, that she send her daughter to school, Killarney District Court was told.

Solicitor for the National Education Welfare Board said there was “a chronic level of absenteeism”.