Union set to fight for Croke Park terms

The leader of the country’s biggest teachers union last night said it would “fight vigorously” to protect the Croke Park Agreement on public service pay and reform.

Irish National Teachers’ Organisation president Noreen Flynn said teachers were keeping their side of the agreement and expected the Government to meet its commitments. The agreement, if fully implemented, would deliver huge savings for government, she said.

In her address to the opening session of the union’s annual gathering in Killarney, Co Kerry, Ms Flynn said the deal was a huge prize for the country and it was in everybody’s interest to make it work.