School managers object to cuts

An umbrella organisation representing the country’s primary school boards of management has claimed cuts proposed under Croke Park II will have a “high and long-lasting cost” on children’s education.

In a move which has angered the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, the Catholic Primary School Management Association has written to the country’s 3,200 primary school boards outlining its objections to the cuts.

It claims that boards of management “will not be in a position to deliver an appropriate education to pupils” and schools will also face “significant health and safety issues”.