As the summer draws to a close and back-to-school looms in the horizon, parents will no longer have to compete in the annual back-to-school photography Olympics of perfectly curated lunch boxes as all primary school kids can now avail of the free hot meals scheme. 

However, 350 new schools due to join the scheme will be put on hold due to proposed new rules from the Government’s procurement department. 

You have reached your article limit. Already a subscriber? Sign in

Unlimited access starts here.

Try from only €0.25 a day.

Subscribe now

Cancel anytime

Read

Listen

Watch

Play

CONNECT WITH US TODAY

WHATSAPP

NEWSLETTERS

NOTIFICATIONS

Be the first to know the latest news and updates

more articles

'No new legislation' on hot school lunches, says food safety body

Cianan Brennan: Hot school meals mess needs a rational solution

Irish Examiner view: Rights of school secretaries and caretakers must be recognised 

More in this section

Shona Murray: EU's bids to mollify Trump were met with nothing but chaos, tariffs, and war

Ireland's Atlantic coastal clans were not isolated, purely Gaelic societies in the Middle Ages

Colin Sheridan: Pressure grows on university over partnership with Israeli military-linked institution



What the deadly hantavirus outbreak on MV Hondius teaches us after covid

READ NOW