School staff furious at TD for ‘scurrilous remark’

FIANNA FÁIL TD Ned O’Keeffe was charged yesterday with making scurrilous accusations against the management at a school where a classroom ceiling collapsed on children, after he suggested the accident was allowed to happen.

There was a furious reaction after Mr O’Keeffe suggested the plasterboard falling on children at St Nessan’s Primary School was an accident waiting to happen and could have been prevented by the school authorities.

Children were crying and their teacher was upset when two plaster boards dislodged and fell in the prefab building at the school in Mungret, Co Limerick, while classes were taking place last month.