Bid to quash conviction on non-school attendance fails

A couple’s bid to quash the conviction they received at a lower court arising out of their teenage daughter’s non attendance at secondary school has been dismissed by the High Court.

Dan and Maureen Arnold were convicted at Fermoy District Court last April of an offence contrary to the 2000 Education and Welfare Act, that they contravened a lawful requirement under a school attendance notice by failing to cause their daughter to attend Coláiste an Chraoibhín in Fermoy.

The conviction was imposed on April 10, 2015, by Judge Aeneas McCarthy.