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THE TAOISEACH has described a list found in a Cork school that said “the girls with the most number of ticks will get raped” as “very worrying” and says it proves the need for better sex education in schools.
Davis College in Mallow is investigating the list found in a boys’ bathroom, and says that it takes the situation “extremely seriously”.
“I’ve absolutely no doubt that the school’s authorities will take it in hand, and take whatever appropriate action is necessary,” Varadkar said today.
But, it does further emphasise the need to modernise and improve [sexual] relationships and sexual education in our schools.
Last month, the Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton, ordered a full review of sex education in schools. “Every student has a right to access information about sexual health, relationships and sexuality, and this must be delivered in a factual manner in every school,” Bruton said.
“Minister Bruton announced we were going to do this anyway, but I I think this really does empathise that even more so, especially in the age of social media and in the age of prevalent pornography,” Varadkar said today.
“We’ve an obligation, I think, both as parents, and as educators, to really educate our kids more, about appropriate behaviour,” he continued.
A statement from the school’s principal, Stephen Gilbert, said that the safety and wellbeing of students is the school’s “top priority”.
We are taking this issue extremely seriously, and immediately took steps to address it with both the affected students and student body at large. This work is continuing.
The school says it remains available to any parents or students who have concerns or questions.
With reporting by David Raleigh.
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Fair play to him. Nice to see a young man trying to engage with the people. They usually only do this once every 5 years to get elected. And when does being an LGBT activist make you gay. I would also like to see rights for LGBT community and am married with 2 kids. Fair play to him
Question 1: why does a suburban sprawl on the outskirts of a relatively small city require a separate mayor?
Question 2: expenses are bleedin’ deadly right?
Question 3: I’m sorry, and you are?
South Dublin County has the fourth highest population for a council area in the country. Do you believe we deserve less representation for living close to a large city?
To be honest, I think a city of under 1.5m people having four separate mayors & councils is utterly ridiculous. Even if we have to retain the four separate councils, there should be one mayor over them all. There are ways to do this even if not the perfectly logical suggestion for a directly elected mayor which was rejected by Fingal council.
If you look at our national population you really have to wonder about the amount of political representation we currently enjoy. We’re about the size of greater Manchester who have a 12 person council governing them, and then a 2 house national parliament above that, and a queen. We have councils for each county/city (and we define cities in pretty questionable ways), 2 Houses of Parliament and a president, yet when the fat was being trimmed only town councils came in to question. Do we benefit from this excessive representation, or is it a costly hindrance to actually getting things done?
London has a population of 8.3 million. It has 33 local authorities all with their own mayor. It also has a London assembly as well as the office of the Mayor of London. And 4 is too much?
Ask him why he joined SF and how he reconciled his liberal agenda with their kangaroo courts, murder and rape?
Just reply on your Facebook and Twitter. No need to move away from the two
Tumblr is just as good,I’ve lost countless searching throughuser created content, most of it is brilliant,
Tumblr allows you to ask questions anonymously, maybe some people don’t feel comfortable asking publicly via Twitter or Facebook.
Because neither Facebook nor Twitter can be anonymous?
By the way well done Mayor
If he thinks engaging with young people and listening to what people want is the right way for politicians and politics to move forward in this country then he’s in the wrong place altogether. Seems to me that there’s nothing wrong with the “promise earth moon and stars to people to get elected, ignore and deprive systems that need the most help when you do (health, & education for example) then seek out every possible way to impose even more taxes on the mist taxed population in Europe”. Just my opinion tho.
Surprised he doesn’t do a Reddit AMA!
Tom only thing you can do is throw dirt..why not ask him yourself if you are genuinely interested though I fear you would not be willing to listen so closed is your mind
have your say