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Minster says 'no single year has been more challenging, more demanding, or more daunting for the education sector'

Anne Loughnane, ASTI regional representative for Cork City and West Cork. Picture: Eddie O’Hare

“It has felt longer than a decade, and shorter than a week,” is how the minister for education succinctly described the last year and its upheaval of education. 

In any given year, Norma Foley may have been able to enjoy the buzz of excitement at the annual teaching conferences.