Dr David Doyle has been awarded funding under the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Grants Scheme 2018. Dr Doyle was awarded 19905 euro for his project, Ireland and the Right to Education in the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
The aim of this project is to investigate whether the Irish state is complying with the right to education as set forth in the ICESCR. Adopting Katarina Tomaševski’s (2006) 4-A Scheme, it will explore the extent to which education in Ireland is available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable in law and practice. The project will also speak to critical concerns about how the education system intersects with marginalised socio-economic and minority groups who suffer multiple layers of disadvantage.
Dr David Doyle is a lecturer at Maynooth University Department of Law. His first book (with Dr Liam O'Callaghan), Capital Punishment in Independent Ireland: A Social, Legal and Political History, will be published in 2019.