Sell your gold to save teaching post, priest asks Church

A priest in Limerick who chairs the board of management of a school in one of the country’s most disadvantaged communities has appealed to the Church to sell off its "dusty and unused gold" to help save an under-threat teaching post in his parish.

Moyross parish priest Fr Tony O’Riordan said Corpus Christi primary school, located less than 5km from the home of the minister for education, has had to privately hire a teacher after the department pulled funding for the teaching post a week before mid-term break. It is understood the teaching post had been under review for some time.

Fr O’Riordan said the school had now taken the decision to employ a teacher privately for as long as they can raise the funds.