A Kerry TD will continue to donate some of his salary to pay for a third teacher at Fybough National School, in the Dingle Peninsula, for the 2014/15 academic year.

The country would need “thousands of TDs” giving up part of their salaries to keep all threatened schools open, a Kerry politician claimed yesterday.

A parent is calling on politicians to follow the example of a TD who donated part of his salary to pay for a school teacher.