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There are calls for the speed limit outside all schools in Donegal to be reduced to 30km per hour.   It comes following a number of serious incidents, particularly south of the county, in recent months.   It’s to be brought forward by way of a motion at today’s sitting…

There’s a very real need to roll out the hot meals scheme to all primary and post-primary schools in Sligo and further afield.   That’s according to Sinn Fein Cllr Arthur Gibbons who says a lot of children’s circumstances have changed utterly in a short few years.   With the…

Concern has been expressed over the teacher pupil ratio in National schools in Leitrim and Donegal.   It’s being reported today Schoolchildren in parts of rural Ireland were twice as likely to be placed in overcrowded classes at primary level last year compared with pupils attending national schools in Dublin.…

A Drumkeerin native has been appointed as the new President of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland. Geraldine O’Brien teaches Home Economics, Computing, CSPE and SPHE in St Joseph’s Community College, Kilkee and previously served as ASTI Vice President. Ms. O’Brien has also previously held the role of Vice…

Recruitment and retention problems means Irish schools are “creaking at the seams”. That’s according to ASTI General Secretary, and former Sligo secondary school teacher, Kieran Christie. The comments were made after new figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act found nearly 14 thousand people who weren’t registered with the…

A former secondary school Vice-Principal is warning that there are many logistical challenges facing Ukrainian students that are now attending Irish schools.   Since the start of the Russian invasion in the Ukraine many students from there now find themselves in Irish primary and post primary schools.   Sean Wynne…