A grave disservice to honest journalism

AS an honest and hardworking primary schoolteacher I was very disappointed with your editorial (‘Day of action becomes day of cheap beer,’ November 25).

Many hundreds of my colleagues and I spent hours on a cold and wet picket line last Tuesday.

The INTO has a legitimate dispute with the Government and we were merely exercising our right to industrial protest. We had a democratic mandate to do so, with an 81% vote by primary teachers in favour of industrial action in Cork city alone.