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.
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.

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