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Tue 02 Feb 2009Pupil suspended for having long hair awarded €3,500
A LEAVING Certificate student suspended from school for three months for having long hair and told he had a “girl’s hair style” has been awarded €3,500 by the Equality Tribunal for gender discrimination and victimisation.
David Knott, who was a Leaving Cert student at Dunmore Community School, Galway, in 2004/2005, missed his “mock” Leaving Cert exams and had to move to another school to sit the State exam.
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