Failure to increase pay rates and imposition of new tax rules means Junior and Leaving Certificate exams could be left with no teachers to supervise or correct them, a teachers’ union official has warned.

Pressure over the deepening junior cycle row is putting some second-level teachers in danger of losing their jobs, it has been claimed.

Teachers decided they would prefer some inspections of their work to continue unannounced than to have the worry of a week’s notice that some of their colleagues were proposing.

A CORK born priest will be praying that, like Maradona in the 1986 World Cup, the Hand of God will this time help Trinidad & Tobago to victory against England today in Nuremberg.