Student sports and activities to suffer

Sports and other activities may suffer at some second-level schools that have managed to remain open amid industrial action by teachers.

Ahead of today’s second one-day strike for equal pay for recently-qualified teachers, 17,500 members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) stopped doing supervision and substitution yesterday at over 500 schools.

Around 400 of them were forced to close because their boards of management did not have staff in place to take on those duties.