SCHOOLS are being urged by Education Minister Mary Coughlan to give substitution work to unemployed teachers, after it emerged one-in-10 primary teachers paid for substitute work in September were already retired.

IT WAS with a sense of déjà vu I read that the Tánaiste, speaking at Davos, announced her intention to “appoint a small group to advise [her] on consumer issues and to provide a national voice for the consumer, independent of vested interests”.