INTO Conference: Brexit ‘could leave thousands of cross-border teachers unemployed’

A hard Brexit could lead to unemployment for thousands of cross-border teachers working in Ireland and the North, it has been claimed.

“There are about 30,000 people who cross the border on a daily basis and they enjoy one of the key principles of the European Union, which is freedom of movement.

“A significant number of those cross-border workers are teachers and these teachers are key to the schools in which they work and in many cases if they hadn’t the facility to travel freely from one jurisdiction into the other, they would be unemployed,” said primary school teacher Gerry Murphy.