28 primary schools to lose a teacher each

TWENTY-EIGHT primary schools have been told they are to lose a teacher each because of what the opposition claims is a broken promise to reduce class sizes.

The schools, which include 12 in Dublin, four in Cork and the remainder in Limerick, Kerry, Kildare, Louth, Meath, Sligo, Carlow and Tipperary, will become the centre of a political row tomorrow when their plight is raised in the Dáil.

Fine Gael will put forward a motion calling on the Government to retain the teachers. The party has challenged Fianna Fáil TDs representing the constituencies of the affected schools to vote in favour of the motion.