Fostering Fortnight, the Irish Foster Care Association’s annual awareness campaign to celebrate and promote foster care in Ireland, is underway, running until the 20th of March. For more on this, on Friday’s Morning Focus, Alan Morrissey was joined by Cora Guinnane, Carer of 15 years and School Chaplin in St. Caimin’s Community School in Shannon, […]
Chloe Morey and Cora Guinnane, teachers at St Caimins Community School in Shannon. They have set up a LGBTI+ group at the school. Photograph by John Kelly.
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Owen Ryan reports on an initiative at Saint Caimin’s to bring about a culture of acceptance regardless of sexuality
HOMOPHOBIC bullying has cast a dark shadow over Irish secondary schools for many years and blighted thousands of young lives.
Name calling, intimidation and sometimes violence against young people who identify as LGBTI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Intersex) or even suspected of being so, has been widespread in many schools.