TDs and senators are to seek changes to the Irish Leaving Certificate syllabus to cater for students in all-Irish schools, after hearing their rights are being denied by recent amendments to the marking scheme.

A TRAINING centre for 3,000 teachers in the country’s Gaeltacht and all-Irish schools is still in the planning stages seven years after it was first announced.

Teachers across the country are delving into an Irish edition of a best-selling Harry Potter book to attract schoolchildren to the language, it has emerged.