Govt under fire again over class sizes

The issue of class sizes is once again putting the government under fire with the Irish National Teachers' Organisation saying new official figures show nearly 100,000 children are in classes of 30 pupils or more.

International best practice is for classes to have no more than 20 students.

The figures show that just over one in 10 Irish children are in classes of less than 20.

The INTO says Irish primary school classes are the second most overcrowded in the EU.