Pat King condemns death threats and abuse of Ruairi Quinn

Death threats on a website run by some of his own union’s members were alleged by ASTI’s general secretary yesterday, as he rounded on delegates who abused Education Minister Ruairi Quinn this week.

Pat King said a small minority of members had treated the minister disgracefully during Mr Quinn’s speech to the union’s annual convention on Tuesday.

Mr King told ASTI delegates that he and union president Sally Maguire — who, he said, represented the 17,000 members’ views concisely to the minister — had to go on radio shows yesterday morning to explain the behaviour seen and heard in the media was not representative of teachers.