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Assumption Grammar School(Image: Googlemaps)<\/p>\nTwo members of the Assumption Grammar School board of governors have resigned<\/p>\n
22:07, 22 Oct 2025Updated 22:59, 22 Oct 2025<\/p>\n
Assumption Grammar School(Image: Googlemaps)<\/p>\n
Two members of a NI grammar school’s board of governors<\/a> have resigned days after parents called for the entire board to step down.<\/p>\n Last week members of a group of concerned parents of children who attend Assumption Grammar School in Ballynahinch<\/a> wrote a letter to the board of governors calling on them to resign, citing a number of reasons including what they claimed was a lack of transparency following an EA investigation.<\/p>\n In the days that followed, it is understood that two members of the Board have since resigned, Sean Gorman and Seamus Magee, the former chair of the Charity Commission in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Concerned parents group call on NI grammar school board to resign<\/a>READ MORE: EA condemned as it continues to refuse to release details of Assumption Grammar finances investigation<\/a><\/p>\n A number of sources connected to the school have said that the two governors, who were in a co-opted role, have resigned from their roles. The Education Authority and Department of Education have declined to comment saying it is a “matter for the school”.<\/p>\n Assumption Grammar School has also not resPonded to repeated requests for comment.<\/p>\n Click this link<\/a> or scan the QR code to receive breaking news and top stories from Belfast Live. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you\u2019re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage<\/strong> here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two members of the Assumption Grammar School board of governors have resigned 22:07, 22 Oct 2025Updated 22:59, 22…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2266,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-520773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115420414217235358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_WhatsApp-community-QR-code-Belfast1.png\")
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