Teacher supply crisis will 'irrevocably damage the education system', study finds

'While shortages of teachers in particular subject areas have arisen from time to time, for 10 years or so now school principals in Ireland have been highlighting the fact that the problem has both widened and deepened,' researchers said.

The "piecemeal" approach to solving the teacher supply crisis over the last decade will "irrevocably damage the education system and the profession of teaching", researchers have warned.

As the teacher supply crisis continued to come to a head this year, many schools struggled to fill posts.