Bid to quash conviction on non-school attendance fails

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.