‘Nobody wants to talk about these children,’ says principal of school for children with severe dyslexia

Neasa Sheahan, principal of Catherine McAuley National School on Baggot Street, Dublin. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Ellen Coyne

Neasa Sheahan, the principal of the Catherine McAuley National School on Dublin’s Baggot Street, does not want to be sending children away.

The special school is for children with severe dyslexia, who can attend for two years from the age of eight.