Change, the one thing that stays the same

WE were promised change — but in the end it was more of the same.

After much hullabaloo about a different format to the Education Minister's attendance, it was more akin, as the union's general secretary John Carr phrased it from the podium, to the Stations of the Cross.

For almost two hours, he and Noel Dempsey read from prepared speeches but took three 15-minute sessions each to do so.