Hanafin rejects appeal to boost support service

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin said yesterday she will not be offering the level of behavioural supports for schools over which teachers have threatened to strike.

Despite disturbing evidence of the abuse suffered at the hands of their students, she also said that members of the Teachers Union of Ireland would not be entitled to pay increases if they carry out the threat.

One member described yesterday how a teenager at a north Dublin school threatened to injure himself and accuse the teacher of doing it.