Letters to the Editor: We must think outside the box on teaching jobs

One reader says teaching graduates should be recruited in Ireland, not forced to find work overseas, while another says we need difficult women like Nell McCafferty to fight the 'tyranny of niceness'

Offering qualified teachers a three- or four-hour contract is 'insulting', says Gerard Conway.

The back to school season starts earlier and earlier every year and of course the headlines that come with it are ‘no teachers’, etc.

This is by no means a new phenomenon. It’s been the same story for the past 30 years and possibly more. I remember having to emigrate about 25 years ago, as many of my colleagues did, due to lack of teaching posts and employment stability in Ireland.