'Deliberate underfunding' has hurt Ireland's education system, teachers' congress told

Michael Gillespie: 'There is no excuse for the continued neglect of our education system'. File picture: Tommy Clancy

Ireland’s education systems have suffered from “chronic and deliberate underfunding”, a teachers’ union has been told.

In his opening address at the TUI annual congress in Wexford, the union’s general secretary Michael Gillespie told members that the underfunding in question amounts to “a legacy of austerity prolonged by political indifference”.