Jess Casey: The government needs to be clear in its message about schools

Students, teachers and parents need clear, concise information, not roundabout answers, writes Jess Casey.

Stephen Donnelly, health minister, has been criticised for comparing the risk of returning to school during a pandemic to bounding on a trampoline or driving in a car. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

I’ve spent the last week interviewing principals about their back-to-school preparations. I’ve really enjoyed talking to them about their schools, peaking curiously at the photographs taken on site of stripped-back classrooms and perspex screens.

How the schools will reopen has been the big question since they switched to remote learning overnight, almost six months ago at this stage.