http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Ruairi+Quinn IrishCentral Ruairi Quinn en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/irish-education-ministry-to-clamp-down-on-cyber-bullying----four-students-suspended-over-teacher-facebook-remarks-146656315.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/irish-education-ministry-to-clamp-down-on-cyber-bullying----four-students-suspended-over-teacher-facebook-remarks-146656315.html Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:15:15 PDT
The Irish Department of Education announced it is to step up its clamp-down on cyber-bullying after four Dublin high-school students are expected to be expelled from school after posting defamatory comments about their teachers on Facebook40 other students were similarly disciplined at Oatlands College, Dublin, this time for merely 'liking' the offensive status updated, while other sources say that the teachers were also subject to "vile" allegations on other social networking media such as TwitterThe comments were posted after the school put on a production of the musical Hairspray at the St Patrick's weekendThe comments were described by the Irish Times as being of a "sexual nature", were leveled against both a male and female teacher, and were posted onto a special Facebook page shortly after the production READ MORE ]]>