Mick Clifford: Why isn’t the minister making schools open new special classes?

A provision brought in for this academic year gives the minister the legislative heft to force schools to open special classes in response to demand. However, it remains the case that some children are still not receiving the welcome to which they should be entitled, writes Mick Clifford

Aidan O'Mahony and Aileen O'Reilly, Togher, Cork.

Aidan O’Mahony laid out a spreadsheet of secondary schools in which he is trying to get his son enrolled. 

He lives in Ballyphehane on Cork’s southside, but he has attempted to get a place as far away as Glanmire, on the road to Dublin.