‘Class field trips are very much at risk’

PAT KINSELLA already has difficulty every week organising substitution cover for teachers taking students out to school events or games.

He now believes some of them will have to be sacrificed next year because of budget cutbacks.

The principal of Coláiste Choilm, a 1,200-student second level school in Ballincollig, Co Cork, is facing the same headaches as colleagues in every school in the country.