For Gerry Lynch, keeping the number of resource teaching hours he had last year is little consolation.

AS hundreds of schools await funding to move out of dilapidated and unsuitable buildings, it has emerged spending on primary schools alone is almost €50 million behind target.

Children boycotting a Co Cork school where rats infested a classroom are to maintain their protest, it was revealed today.

Parents and students have been protesting today at a rat-infested school in north Cork.