New teachers may not get jobs for a decade

Some newly qualified secondary school teachers will have to put up with being employed on an hour-by-hour basis for at least the rest of this decade because of the crisis in the country.

That was the claim made by Pat King, the general secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, during his address to delegates in Wexford.

Emphasising the plight faced by the latest generation of teachers, he said Ireland was falling far behind other nations when it came to giving them employment.