School discriminated against Catholic girl on religious grounds, rules WRC

The Workplace Relations Commission has found that a multi-denominational secondary school discriminated against a Catholic school girl on religious grounds.

A multi-denominational secondary school discriminated against a Catholic school girl on religious grounds by favouring for admission Church of Ireland students from a local primary school.

That is the finding of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), which has now ordered the Dublin community school to admit the girl to second year for the start of the next school year next September.