‘No two perspectives on homophobic bullying’

The principal of Coláiste Eoin, the school at which a workshop on homophobic bullying did not go ahead this week, has said some parents were worried their child would be “singled out” by other pupils if they did not attend.

Finín Máirtín said it was on that basis that it decided to postpone the workshop adding that “there were probably six or seven parents involved”.

Transition year students at the Dublin secondary school were due to given the talk by the group Shout Out on Wednesday morning. However, Shoutout said it was told at the last minute that the even was not going ahead. It said it was told that the board of the school and the parents believed “the other side needed to be heard”.