Quinn: Gravity of crisis not understood

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn made it clear to primary teachers he is not for turning on cutbacks because of the country’s dire financial situation.

He drew the ire of some delegates at the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation congress when he suggested they and others still did not understand the gravity of the economic crisis.

He seemed unperturbed by the frosty reception he received, or by heckles and moans from the floor which greeted parts of his address, in the Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney.