TD calls for an end to overcrowded classrooms

CHILDREN going back to school this week or joining as junior infants are being crammed into classrooms which are far too overcrowded, according to a Waterford TD.

And it must stop now, says Brian O’Shea, Labour Party spokesman on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.

Mr O’Shea wants Education Minister Mary Hanafin to reduce primary school class sizes after it was recently revealed that a quarter of all classes have 30 children or more.