Gay and lesbian teachers suffer "real anxiety" because of a law that allows a school to protect its religious ethos when it comes to who they employ.

Ireland

Gay and lesbian teachers suffer “real anxiety” because of a law that allows a school to protect its religious ethos when it comes to who they employ.

Equality Minister Aodhan O Riordain has promised to amend the legislation – but the Irish National Teachers Organisation insists that it must be abolished completely.

“Amending a bad law does not change it,” INTO president Sean McMahon said in his opening address to the union’s annual conference.

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