Court ruling on Traveller child a retrogade step

I refer to the Supreme Court’s decision regarding a Traveller family that challenged a Christian Brothers’ school in Clonmel for refusing to allow their child to enrol.

The court’s decision is a retrograde step and sends out the wrong message to all families seeking to have their children educated in a school of their choice.

Just because your siblings or parents were educated in a particular school does not enable one to step above another child’s right to be admitted to that school.

I commend the Stokes family and I hope they take this all the way to the European Court.

Our founding fathers declared that we should cherish all the children of the nation equally. I appeal to the Taoiseach, before the 100th anniversary of 1916, to ensure that this is not a dream, but a reality.

Paul Doran

27 Monastery Walk,

Clondalkin,

Dublin