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PODCAST: Mural to mark shift in education to be launched in Ballagh tomorrow

Jul 3, 2025 15:19
By Eoghan Murphy
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PODCAST: Mural to mark shift in education to be launched in Ballagh tomorrow

A mural will be launched in Ballaghaderreen tomorrow in remembrance of the end of corporal punishment.

It's on the former De La Salle Brothers School - which is now known as the Family Resource Centre.

Corporal punishment was scrapped by then Education Minister John Boland in 1982.

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His daughter, Fine Gael TD Grace Boland, will launch the mural tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Joe Egan is a member of the organising group - he has been telling Eoghan Murphy more:

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