Union protests school over teacher's blocked attendance at Teaching Council meetings

The Teaching Council office in Maynooth. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

A teachers’ union is to protest outside a school today in a dispute over attendance at meetings of the Teaching Council, the professional standards body for the profession.

The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) claims Presentation College Athenry is refusing to allow one of its teachers, an elected representative of the Teaching Council, to attend Teaching Council meetings.