BeLonG To Presents to the Oireachtas Education Committee on LGBT Students

Thursday, 02 July 2009

BeLonG To’s Advocacy Coordinator, Dr. Carol-Anne O’Brien along with Sandra Gowran GLEN’s Director of Education Policy, made a joint presentation to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Science on 2nd July. This was the first time that the issues for LGBT young people in second level schools had been debated by a Dáil Committee.

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