It is time to meet another of the Teachers Inspire awardees of 2022.
 
Ruairi Farrell is the Principal of Greystones Community College but some 15 years ago he was a Year Head in another school where he intervened after becoming concerned about a student.
 
The student was Ciara Nolan and in her nomination to Teachers Inspire last year she said he was ‘always looking and making sure everyone was okay but when he realised I was suffering, which was probably before I even realised I had a problem, he had called me out of class one day and asked me to speak to the counsellor.’
 
She had developed an eating disorder and while it was many years ago, she never forgot what he did. 
 
We hear Ruairi discuss what it meant to have been nominated, the teachers that inspired him and what he has in place in his school to support today’s students, including a psychotherapist.
 
Louise talks about having an eating disorder when she was in secondary school, attending counselling and how she thinks having a psychotherapist in school is a very positive initiative.

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