He, the secondaryschoolprincipal and the school security officer have redoubled efforts to make students show up for school, visiting truants' homes almost every day.
"Speaking as a secondaryschoolprincipal I would be very concerned about the easy access to drugs in all the towns and small villages of Ireland at the moment, " she said.
Katheen Gormley spent ten years as principal of St Cecilia's College, a Catholic girls' secondaryschool in Londonderry, and is now principal of Hazelwood Integrated College in Belfast.