The history is stark: Talk of equality among teachers is nonsense

Services are shortchanged to retrofit post-crash public servants with boom-time expectations, writes Gerard Howlin

MOST schools are back today and for some it’s a first day in Big School. A lot to learn and a way to go for sure.

Schools are vexed places, however. Teachers aren’t happy and issues about pay were ratcheted up the agenda in curious statements from Mary Mitchell O’Connor and Thomas Byrne.