Comments on: School Hires Forensic Barber

By: inco

inco — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:12:57 +0000

Any chance of a link to a picture of Mr Gilmore and co. so that the rest of us can adjudicate on their perfect preening, oh and Dick and Deardry too,,,
Also is there any chance of the same type of wankers getting the young schoolgirls of limerick to wear minis, now that would be nice

By: Star gazer

Star gazer — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:22:10 +0000

I went to that school and that kind of attitude had been in the school for years. I left Dunmore Community school in 1999 and it was the very same then, I was delighted to hear that someone had the balls to make a stand against it. Mr Patrick (just to fill u all in on his first name) Gilmore always had an issue with boys having long hair for some unknown reason but always got his little lapdogs to address the issue for him.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:41:10 +0000

Can you imagine what this school would have made of David Bowie, founder of the The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men?

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:39:07 +0000

Richard and Deidre have the same IP address.

Am I surprised?

Gobshite!

By: Fergal

Fergal — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:03:47 +0000

it is really not about what he looks like or how much he was awarded by the courts of the land, it is purely about his right to wear his own hair long or short and not have some jumped up self important nazi fucker telling him he looks like a girl! how many other students were forced to attend the forensic barber? these people should be sacked for wasting school monies and also court time and taxpayers money!

By: Deidre

Deidre — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:20:12 +0000

I agree 100% with Richard. What is crazy here is that the guy did not knuckle down and worry about the leaving cert and has now cost every one of us our hard earned euros. He should be ashamed, Tell me this knott if you wanted to join the army would you sue them also for forcing you to cut your hair. Rules man, Rules.

By: richard

richard — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:14:41 +0000

Did anyone see the picture of this knott guy in the paper this week. I mean a picture says a thousand words and he posed for it. I am not saying I agree with this particular school rule but if you don't like the rules move on. In my place of work guys must have shirts with collars, if you don't like it find a new job!! Bottom line is the guy did not want to obey the rules that 499 other kids were willing to obey. One thing that people seem to be missing at a time when the country is on its knees we are handing over 3500 of your hard earned taxes to this guy. Not to mention the legal costs, which make no mistake would run into the tens of thousands of euros.

By: MairÃ©ad

Makes me ashamed to be a professional educator…
Boards of Management are a sham.
The members are meant to run the school, BUT, in actual fact the Boards are generally run a bit like the Cork County Board = one tyrant runs the show.

By: EssoDee

EssoDee — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:41:37 +0000

Do You know Bock you could have great fun with these people though. If I was in that boys shoes now, I'd tell them that I was a girl, trapped in a boys body, might be a lot of oppportunities to confuse and wrongfoot the fuckers.

By: EssoDee

EssoDee — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:34:45 +0000

I laughed when I heard this on the radio. The most pythonesque bit was the Department ruling, that collar length hair was acceptable. These people really are unbelievable, the same types who never made a squeak when all those kids were being raped and beaten under their watch down the years. Credit to the equality people, I'm not generally a fan of them, but why could we not have a FREEDOM authority, and a FREEDOM tribunal to adjudicate on these types of issues, these are issues primarily of freedom, not of equality, whatever that is.