A GROUP of children have shown how they are learning to reduce their carbon footprint and their school’s energy bills, but have also taken the message outside the classroom.

MILLIONS of euro that could be spent on modern buildings is being wasted on renting and buying prefabs, angry teachers claimed yesterday.

CHILDREN at St Mary’s National School in Killenaule, Co Tipperary, will lose two of their current teachers next summer because of the Government’s budget move to increase class sizes.

RAISA Carolan from Belarus yesterday recalled the “mostly bad” times she experienced in the orphanage she left four years ago to live with her adopted parents in Ireland.

PARENTS of pupils at a Waterford primary school say they’re going to appeal a decision by the local council to grant retention for a mobile phone mast located within 180 metres from the junior infants’ classroom.

AS PARENTS of pupils opposed to a mast close to their school were meeting last night to discuss their next move, a local senator has raised his concerns over the development.

Eddie Cassidy

A DELAY in Government repair grants will worsen the schools building crisis, teachers have warned.