A Christian Brother at Coláiste Mhuire teacher training college in Marino, who claims he was moved to Africa after raising concerns about the treatment of staff there, has been told he is no longer available to work at the college.
Speaking to The Irish Times, Brother Rory Geoghegan, who returned to Ireland last month, said he had been summoned to a meeting with the interim director of the college, Helen Ó Murchú, yesterday.
At this meeting, he says, he was informed of a letter from the Christian Brothers that said he would not be available to work at the college.
In previous communications about his role there, he said he had been given to understand that any decision to move him would be "revisited". But, he said, despite having "done his punishment" by moving to Zambia, this was evidently "not enough".
"I feel quite put out about it," he said." I feel the whole thing is very high-handed and authoritarian, and smacks of a different era. It is not the congregation I joined 40 years ago."
The former head of Coláiste Mhuire Marino, Caoimhe Máirtín, left her post last April after a settlement.
A spokesperson for Marino Institute of Education, which oversees Coláiste Mhuire, would only confirm that Ms Ó Murchú met Brother Geoghegan yesterday to thank him for his contribution to the college.
But sources close to the Christian Brothers were adamant last night that a letter to Brother Geoghegan last February had very clearly made the point that he would no longer have any involvement with the institute.
A draft report by Price Waterhouse Cooper into the college is believed to have found no evidence of misuse of State funds .