Teacher challenges school’s decision to transfer her

A teacher who was subject of a number of complaints by pupils and parents, including about her teaching competency and behaviour, has brought a High Court challenge to decisions to initially compulsorily transfer her to another school and later place her on administrative leave.

Mary McEneaney alleges since the Cavan and Monaghan Education Training Board learned in 2009 that she suffered from depression after she had told her then school principal, she has been discriminated against on grounds of her illness.

She had not stated that she suffered from depression on a form she filled in when taking up employment at Largy College, Clones, Co Monaghan, in 1999 because she feared discrimination, Ms McEneaney said.