Anseo! How a new generation of gay teachers is fighting back

It’s important for people to speak about this,” says Eoin Houlihan who was going to be anonymous for this article. But, after talking it over with the principal in his school, he decided to allow his name to be published because silence, he feels, is part of the problem.

Houlihan is in his 30s and has been a secondary school teacher for almost 10 years. He is also gay – something that he kept under wraps to begin with.

“I suppose I was nervous about it,” he says to the Irish Times. “I teach in a Catholic school so there was a big fear about it hampering my chances of being made permanent or gaining promotion”.

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