Father faces jail as girl misses 164 days of school

A father has been sentenced to 14 days in jail and his partner fined after their teenage daughter missed 164 days from a 167-day school year.

The teenager’s parents appeared at Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal charged with failing to ensure she attended school under the Education and Welfare Act.

The case of the girl, who is from east Donegal, had been adjourned from a previous occasion to see if there had been any improvement in the girl’s school attendance.