Walkouts in Wexford and Monaghan schools

Two groups of students in separate schools have staged walkouts this morning in protest at the ongoing ASTI strike.

All Leaving and Junior Certificate students at the Presentation Secondary School in Wexford refused to start classes and upto 100 girls began picketing the front gates.

Meanwhile, over 200 of their counterparts at St Louis School in Monaghan took similar action just before 9am.

They called upon the Government and the ASTI to sit down and resolve the situation between them so that students can have proper tuition in the run-up to their exams.