Children 'missed school because of UK wedding' [sligochampion.ie]
- Published: 13 October 2011
A FATHER told Sligo District Court that the reason his children were late going back to school was that he was in England at a wedding.
The father and his wife were summoned by the National Educational Welfare Board in respect of the non attendance of three of their children at school.
The case had been adjourned from a previous sitting to monitor progress but Mr. Eoin Armstrong, solicitor (for the Board), told the court that since the last court before the summer the youngest child had missed seven out of 23 days and the second eldest a total of eight out of 25 days. They didn't return to school until September 12th due to a wedding in England while the eldest child did not go back until the 19th. Since then the attendance had been reasonable.
The children's father told the court they went to England on August 25th for a wedding but they couldn't get back in time for school because he couldn't get nine tickets for the bus that was to take the ferry.
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