Supreme Court finds judges were wrong to order reinstatement of school principal to job

The Supreme Court has found that the Labour Court was wrong to order the re-instatement of a Co Wexford gaelscoil principal to the job he had been removed from a decade ago.

The five-judge court said that while the Labour Court was entitled to find that Gaelscoil Moshiolog’s board of management had unfairly dismissed Aodhagan Ó Suird in 2015, it had erred in law in finding that he should have been re-engaged.

Giving the court’s decision in what has been a long and complex legal battle, the Chief Justice, Donal O’Donnell, said that given the “inordinate amount of time that has already elapsed” in this case it would “not be appropriate” given the circumstances to set aside the Labour Court’s decision, which had been upheld by the High Court, and remit it back for a fresh consideration.

The Chief Justice also noted that arising out of the High Court’s decision in the case last year, Mr Ó Suird, whose dismissal arose over allegations he had inflated enrolment figures at the school,…

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