Mother sentenced to 28 days in jail on third prosecution for daughter's truancy

A mother has been jailed for 28 days after a court heard her daughter had missed 125 days of school out of the last 156 days she could have attended.

Bandon District Court heard it was the third time the woman had been prosecuted by the Child and Family Agency for the offence, and that she and her child live just a five-minute walk from the secondary school in Co. Cork.