Gorey Gaelscoil debacle - astonishing legal smackdown

You are talking about culture.

The way I see it if one school is cooking the books, that deprives another school who is more deserving that hasn't cooked the books.

The pot is finite.

But again you just have to read the High Court Judges comments justifying the culture.

I'll remind you again the next time fraud annoys you.

Either way according to the Department guidelines and backed up by the official from the Department the sacking was justifyiable.

Maybe the Department should get involved and take this case higher, because the way I see it 2 courts just cut their legs from under them .

Now who’s missing the point?

You’re trying to justify the behaviour of the Principal and the Board of Management based upon your own prejudices that the teacher in question had any case to answer for. They don’t, because the investigation was never completed, and wasn’t conducted properly in the first place. This is what I mean when I said you’re way off in thinking the BOM couldn’t have dismissed him in accordance with employment law.

The whole point of employment law is to protect employees from unfair treatment, and to prohibit employers from inflicting unfair treatment upon their employees. This is the whole point of fair procedures, which requires a proper investigation to be carried out within a reasonable time frame, and based upon the findings of that investigation, then it would be decided what was an appropriate action to be taken. None of this happened, primarily due to the fact that the BOM were completely incompetent, but also due to the fact that the new Principal ran roughshod over every procedure which was required of them and the Board.

Had they adhered to proper procedures, and they’re all laid out in the governing manual which each member of the board receives upon appointment, then this whole sorry mess that dragged on for a decade could have been prevented. You claimed the Principal didn’t go gung ho, she very much did, treating the school like her own personal little fiefdom where her rule reigns supreme, yet that is precisely why schools are required by law to have a Board of Management, to mitigate against this sort of behaviour. The Board are expected to manage the affairs of the school and act in the schools best interests, and in this case they failed miserably on a number of issues, not the least of which was their failure to conduct a proper investigation into the incident in a timely manner, which resulted in a man being deprived of his livelihood, his reputation smeared with an allegation of wrongdoing, and the school being run by one person who acted way outside of their authority In taking the law into their own hands.

You claimed the end justifies the means; it doesn’t, it never does, and this case is evidence of that fact. When the Principal decided to take the law into her own hands, and the Board decided to let her take the law into her own hands rather than do what they are expected to do as a Board, they were entirely in the wrong. That’s why they were on the receiving end of such harsh words from the judge, that’s why the former Principal of the school was reinstated and his reputation was restored, and your question about the 12 years in between just doesn’t arise. Your Minority Report fantasies are just that, they’re not an argument, they’re based entirely on your own prejudices in place of the facts. That’s why we have numerous checks and balances in place intended to ensure that people when they are accused of wrongdoing are entitled to fair treatment. It’s one of the most basic and fundamental principles in law.

Perhaps they wanted it on record, at least on their end?

I seriously doubt that the Principal coerced them into doing or saying something they didnt want to!

Is there any evidence the school has nothing but thrived since his departure?

Is there any more evidence any children being attacked?

It's almost like you don't have to commit fraud and violence.

I'm not saying the Principal coerced them by any means. I'd be more inclined to think that the Principal asked them for the letter. But that's speculation on my part because I don't know why the parents wrote to the school through their solicitor.

If they wrote a personal letter, then it would still be on record.

Don’t pretend you didn’t see this part of my post:

your question about the 12 years in between just doesn’t arise

Going to be interesting going forward - he is entitled to be reinstated as per the high court judgement -in a newspaper article yesterday he made it clear he would return - two principals how will that work??

Is the same principal there now ?

Cool Story Bro.

Rabid dogs and paedos. 😂

In the 144 page statement given by the judge in the case.

no idea what relevance parents sitting on the board have - in response to another poster - I speculated that the child’s parents in question did not condone / want to be involved with the boards behaviour based on sending in a solicitors letter. I made no reference to any other parents.

Evidence that the dogs were Rabid 😉

I can't see him coming back. He'll get a big lump sum for wages lost etc. I'd say he'll get another lump sum to take early retirement.

The irony of you calling someone else's post a story is immense. You are the poster who is imagining all sorts of magical things that there is zero evidence happened.

Calling the Gardaí to handle an unruly 7-year-old was disgraceful and traumatising

Indeed, the principal should have just attacked him. 👍️

 The pedophile was well known and not viewed as a big threat by the parents for reasons I won't go into

Oh he was one of the those harmless paedophiles?