The planned building of an incinerator at Ringaskiddy is the wrong option because of new binding EU recycling targets, Labour’s Sheila Nunan has warned.

The Government has been called on to put together a proper bid for Ireland to host the new European Labour Authority (ELA), with Cork flagged as a viable location.

Joe Leogue Both Fine Gael and Labour selected candidates for the European Parliament elections in the Ireland South constituency yesterday.

More than 43,000 primary teachers are voting over the next month to elect the head of one of the country’s biggest unions.

A vote for industrial action in schools could leave more than 36,000 primary teachers thousands of euro out of pocket in pursuit of equal pay for equal work.

Trade unions, housing advocates, and community and campaign groups have come together to call for a radical shift in housing policy.

The Government has been accused by teachers’ leaders of ‘fake news’ over suggestions that unions did not prioritise pay equality for newer entrants to the profession in last year’s pay talks.

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s planned expansion of a scheme to tackle disadvantage in schools has been described as short on the resources needed to address the issues.

It’s all in the mix from Esther N McCarthy.

It is Easter and members of the teaching profession have gathered together in various towns throughout Ireland to highlight and discuss the many issues facing the profession.

The director of the Workplace Relations Commission has urged both sides of the ongoing Luas dispute to “step down their rhetoric” ahead of proposed strike action next week.

The country’s 33,000 primary school teachers will be balloted for industrial action over, what their union says, is the continued ban on job promotion in schools as well as an increasing workload.

Schools should have a 15% cut to extra teaching for pupils with disabilities reversed while they wait for a new system of allocating special needs staff, a union has claimed.

The country’s largest teaching union has described JobBridge as “exploitative” and urged teachers who are looking for work not to do so under the Government’s work placement scheme.

The Equality Tribunal has found that a primary school in Munster discriminated against a teacher on the grounds of age, religion, and sexual orientation and has ordered it to pay her €54,000 in compensation, the equivalent of a year’s salary.

Many parents buying their children a smartphone this Christmas have “no idea” of the potential dangers of the online dangers their child may face.

Schools are still waiting to find out if they will get Department of Education funding for repairs this year or if they will have to ask hard-pressed parents to pay the maintenance bills instead.

The teaching of religion in school is “not the highest thing on the agenda” of primary school teachers who are more concerned about pay and resources.

Higher level Leaving Certificate maths is to become a minimum requirement for people wishing to enter teacher training.

A deal on the gradual restoration of paycuts imposed on more than 2,000 young teachers in 2011 is expected in the coming weeks.

Ruairi Quinn has provoked a strong reaction from primary school teachers by suggesting that Honours Maths should be a minimum requirement to qualify.

A review of the workload that has brought thousands of primary school principals to breaking point is urgently needed, their union claims.

The exclusion of primary schools that already have book rental schemes from a €15m funding programme has been criticised.

Parents who bought young children smartphones for Christmas need to educate themselves on the risks around cyberbullying, a teachers’ leader has warned.

Schools must be given the necessary resources to accommodate the needs of all pupils if planned enrolment regulations are introduced, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has been told.

The country’s largest teaching union has accused the Government of enforcing savage cuts on pupils with special needs.

Primary teachers have voted by a decisive majority to accept the Haddington Road public sector pay proposals.

New teachers are infuriated that Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has ordered a clampdown on employment rights on school building sites while some of them are owed thousands of euro in back pay by his department.

The strength of the vote against the Croke Park II deal by primary teachers has been put down to anger over a range of previous pay and education service cuts.

The number of training places for primary teachers should be reduced because Government cuts mean there are not enough jobs in schools, the head of their union has claimed.

The Government was sent an unequivocal message from primary teachers that those who can afford to do so must be asked to pay more taxes if the economic crisis is to be tackled fairly.

Ruairi Quinn and primary teacher’s leader Sheila Nunan each spoke for 31 minutes, but the reception they received from delegates could not have been more contrasting.

INTO general secretary Sheila Nunan has told Education Minister Ruairi Quinn that "taking the knife to education sells the next generation short" at the teaching union's annual conference in Cork.

The country’s largest teaching union indicated that the “benefits” from this week’s promissory note deal would need to be reflected in a reduction in the demand from the Government for €1bn in savings from public service workers.

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A 14-year-old golf sensation whose grandparents hail from Ireland, has become the fourth youngest in the history of the event to qualify for the US Women’s Open.

INTO general secretary Sheila Nunan hit back at Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s comments that some teachers did not seem to fully understand the seriousness of the economic crisis.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has come under fire from teachers after warning that small schools could fall victim to further cuts.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has warned that small schools cannot be immune from budget cuts.

Christian Brothers College Cork had little difficulty in overcoming St Munchin’s College in yesterday’s Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Junior Cup quarter-final at Musgrave Park.

Teachers who retire at the end of February with a full pension could continue working for months afterwards.

THE response of the teachers’ unions to a suggestion that salary increments due next year be deferred is as dispiriting as it is predictable.