Parents call on ministers to address ‘failures’ at special school amid principal abuse claims

Belmayne Community Special School in north Dublin opened last November. File picture

Parents at a special school for autistic children with complex needs have called on ministers to address “serious failures within many systems” they say placed their children in unsafe circumstances.

It emerged last weekend that a number of allegations of childhood abuse made against John Condon, the principal of Belmayne Community Special School in north Dublin, dating from his time as head of another school, had been 'founded' by Tusla.