The Board of Management of a Catholic school can proceed with its High Court challenge against the School’s patron over the sale of the school’s playing fields. Last year the school board was told by Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST), the patron body, that it faced being scrapped over its support for a legal challenge to the sale of pitches at the Deansgrange schoool. However,  the approval of Minister for Education Richard Bruton is required to dissolve the board, and the request was being examined by the Attorney General. Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor said on Wednesday that the Attorney General had “given his assurance that there will be no dissolution of the board before the High Court case”. If the board had been dissolved, the High Court challenge would have collapsed. Now instead, the patron faces the prospect of losing control of governance of the school.