April 2009
INTO in the News
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EUR450,000 prefab abandoned to vandals (Irish Independent)
30th April 2009
The
Department of Education has wasted EUR450,000 on a school prefab bought
six years ago – but which was then abandoned to vandals…
Time for Minister to walk the walk (Irish Times)
28th April 2009
Aidan Gaughran
As
one of more than 800 primary teachers at the recent INTO conference in
Donegal, I had the opportunity to hear what the Minister for Education
Minister, Batt O'Keeffe, had to say...
Kiberd on 4 – 4FM
28th April 2009
Interview with
Tom O Sullivan (INTO) who discusses whether teachers who enter politics
should be allowed to retain their teaching jobs and pension
entitlements while in office.
Cuts in language support raise integration worry (Irish Independent)
25th April 2009
THE great ethnic divide in Irish education is revealed today for the first time…
Exploding Titanic myth about teachers (Irish Independent)
24th April 2009
John Carr, General Secretary, Irish National Teachers Organisation
Anyone
worried by Kevin Myers' likening on Tuesday of Ireland's economic
situation to the 'Titanic' can take comfort in the fact that his
purported economic analysis is probably on a par with his demonstrated
ignorance of the education system…
Mood at teacher conferences (Irish Times)
24th April 2009
Madam,
– Barry Walsh (April 17th) significantly neglects to inform readers
that remarks made to former minister for education Mary Hanafin at INTO
congress 2007 were conditional on her as minister taking on board
specific issues of concern to primary teachers that were raised
directly with her...
Newbridge woman lands top job in INTO (Kildare Nationalist)
24th April 2009
A
Newbridge woman is set to make history by becoming the first female
General Secretary in the long history of the Irish National Teachers'
Organisation...
Sheila new face of INTO (Leinster Leader)
23rd April 2009
Newbridge lady is first female general secretary in 141 years...
1,200 Graduate Teachers Facing Unemployment (Citywide News)
22nd April 2009
"As
educationalists, we totally oppose your government forcing children to
pay for the recklessness and greed of Ireland's casinocapitalists."
John Carr, General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers'
Organisation...
Schools strike on the cards (Gorey Echo)
22nd April 2009
Wexford teachers have
backed a campaign of industrial action which will involve widespread
disruption in schools in June and again in September. The move could
see schools closed as part of a day of action...
New INTO Vice President is a native of Culfadda (Sligo Champion)
22nd April 2009
Jim Higgins, the new Vice President of the INTO was born in Battlefield, Culfadda, Ballymote, Co. Sligo...
Deise AM (WLR)
21st April 2009
Tramore Town Councillor and
retired primary school teacher Joe Conway (Ind) and Maria Doyle
(Principal, Our Lady of Mercy Senior Primary School, Waterford) discuss
an increase in men seeking to become primary school teachers as a
result of the economic downturn.
INTO delegates make their voices heard (Clare People)
21st April 2009
IT
was the cuts to special needs classes and growing class sizes in the
county that was foremost in the minds of the Clare INTO delegates that
gathered in Donegal for the union's national conference...
Prefab Disgrace (Wicklow Times)
21st April 2009
It
emerged last week that the Department of Education has spent a
staggering one million euro on renting prefabs for schools in County
Wicklow in recent years...
The Wide Angle (Newstalk)
19th April 2009
Newspaper review with Sheila Nunan (INTO), Paul Anthony McDermott (Barrister) and Michael O’Regan (Irish Times).
Huge increase in primary school pupils predicted for Edenderry (Offaly Independent)
18th April 2009
Primary
school enrolment numbers are set to skyrocket in north Offaly with
figures predicting that schools in Edenderry will need between 25 and
32 new classrooms by the year 2015, with a possibility that 900 student
places could be needed...
Leaking prefabs and two clods of turf policy (Tirconaill Tribune
)
17th April 2009
The
INTO and ASTI weekend teacher's conferences in Letterkenny and
Killarney have highlighted the lack of progress on the country's school
building programme and it is a total disgrace that after ten years of
an excess of revenue that over 70,000 children continue to be taught in
prefabricated classrooms...
Teachers stage walkout at INTO conference in Letterkenny (Tirconaill Tribune)
17th April 2009
The
Minister for Education, Batt O'Keeffe received a frosty reception from
primary school teachers at the INTO national conference, which was held
in the Mount Errigal Hotel on Tuesday...
Budget cuts criticized at teachers’ union conferences (Clare Champion)
17th April 2009
Two
Clare leaders were critical of the Government at their teachers' union
conferences last weekend in their respective speeches regarding the
changes implemented in last-week's emergency budget...
Battleground Letterkenny (Donegal News)
17th April 2009
"What
was once the lands of saints and scholars now sacrifices its scholars
for its sinners," was the stark message from Donegal-based INTO General
Secretary John Carr this week...
Limerick Today (Live 95FM)
17th April 2009
Joe Lyons (INTO)
discusses the teachers’ conferences which took place this week and the
possibility of industrial action. John Walsh (Education Correspondent,
The Irish Independent) joins the discussion.
Average male primary teacher on EUR64k & Sheila Nunan new INTO General Secretary (Evening Echo)
17th April 2009
Male primary teachers earn EUR8,000 more on average than their female counterparts...
Galway woman elected new President of INTO (Galway City Tribune)
17th April 2009
Galway teacher Make Ni Chuinneagain has commenced her role as President of the Irish National Teachers Organisation...
Batt man flies in the face of adversity (Donegal Democrat)
16th April 2009
Teachers report: Subject: B. O'Keefe:
Geography:
Pass; (successfully found his way to INTO conference in Letterkenny
though suggestions from the Union's General Secretary, John Carr, that
he used Martin Cullen's helicopter to get there and back); History
(recent): Fail. Not good. Needs to study his past carefully...
Schools face disruption as teachers plan to take action (Irish Times)
16th April 2009
Teacher
unions have backed a campaign of industrial action which will involve
widespread disruption in schools in June and again in September. The
move could see schools closed as part of a day of action...
Congress votes to shun duties of retired colleagues (Irish Examiner)
16th April 2009
Primary
school teachers will refuse to take on the administrative duties of
colleagues who retire, because hundreds of vacancies will not be filled
under a public service promotions ban...
Cuts in special needs teachers likely to be big election issue (Anglo Celt)
16th April 2009
Cutbacks
in the educational sector being implemented as a result of new national
budgetary measures are now likely to feature in the Local and European
Election campaigns, particularly in the Bailieboro Electoral Area...
The Last Word (Today FM)
16th April 2009
Figures from the
Department of Education show that there is a significant disparity
between the pay of male and female teaches. Interview with Sheila
Nunan (INTO) and Mary Ellen Synon (Irish Daily Mail).
Defiant Teachers to abstain from school duties in protest (Irish Independent)
16th April 2009
PUPILS
face massive disruption in the day-to-day running of their schools this
September as teachers ramp up their rejection of Government cutbacks…
Delegates condemn decision to abolish special classes (Irish Times)
16th April 2009
Minister's move to end classes for children with mild learning needs was unanimously criticized…
INTO appoints its first female general secretary after 141 years (Irish Times)
16th April 2009
THE INTO has appointed the first female general secretary in its 141-year history. Sheila Nunan from Newbridge, Co Kildare…
Nunan breaks mould to make history (Irish Examiner)
16th April 2009
The country’s female-dominated primary teaching profession will have a woman as its most senior union official next year...
Schools face disruption as teachers plan to take action (Irish Times)
16th April 2009
Techer
unions have backed a campaign of industrial action which will involve
widespread disruption in schools in June and again in September…
Millions wasted on renting and buying prefabs, claim teachers (Irish Examiner)
16th April 2009
Millions
of euro that could be spent on modern buildings is being wasted on
renting and buying prefabs, angry teachers claimed yesterday...
Schools spend huge sums of dead money on prefabs (Irish Independent)
16th April 2009
Schools are paying three times more to rent prefabs than it would cost to build proper accommodation, teachers said yesterday…
Carr highlights teachers anger and outrage at cutbacks (Donegal Democrat)
16th April 2009
Minister faces wrath at INTO Congress
Teachers who had neither hand, act or part in the country's economic
collapse "bitterly resent have their pockets picked" to bail out
bankers, speculators and developers, INTO General Secretary John Carr
told the Minister for Education at this week's congress in
Letterkenny...
Carr motors… (Donegal Democrat)
16th April 2009
Carr motors.... Outgoing General Secretary
of the INTO, Donegal man John Carr, delivered a stirring address to
delegates and, in particular, Minister for Education, Batt O'Keefe...
Donegal teachers join chorus of outrage (Donegal Democrat)
16th April 2009
Angry Donegal teachers have joined in the
chorus of outrage directed against Education Minister, Batt O'Keefe,
whose address to the INTO congress in Letterkenny this week was
described as a "complete damp squid."...
Minister’s tribute to outgoing General Secretary (Donegal Democrat)
16th April 2009
Minister Batt O'Keefe paid a glowing tribute to the outgoing General Secretary...
Prefabs ban plea (Star)
16th April 2009
Primary school teachers called yesterday for an end to the use of prefabs for classrooms...
Teachers vote for action (Herald AM)
16th April 2009
Industrial action in the nation's primary
schools is definitely on the cards for later this year. Delegates at
the INTO annual conference yesterday voted unanimously to support
action...
Some teachers walk out as Minister addresses conference (Letterkenny Post)
16th April 2009
Anger and frustration are two words that
could sum up the reaction of over one thousand teachers on Tuesday, at
Letterkenny's biggest ever trade union conference...
Nine O’Clock News (RTE One)
15th April 2009
Minister
for Education Batt O’Keefe was heckled by delegates at the TUI
conference in Cork. At the INTO conference teachers voted unanimously
to engage in rolling industrial action from September.
Six One News (RTE One)
15th April 2009
The INTO has voted for a campaign of industrial action to oppose cuts in schools.
Six News (Today FM)
15th April 2009
Teachers union to start work to rule campaign from September – Interview John Carr, INTO.
Drivetime (RTE Radio 1)
15th April 2009
Teachers’ strike action may soon occur – Reporter John Walshe on the INTO, ASTI and TUI conferences.
News at One (RTE Radio 1)
15th April 2009
Education conference review – INTO, ASTI and TUI reaction to cuts and plans for action.
Angry delegate tells minister she’s left with just EUR94 per week (Irish Independent)
15th April 2009
26-year-old
primary teacher who yesterday confronted Education Minister Batt
O'Keeffe over how the new levies have left her with just EUR94 a week...
Batt’s baptism of fire fails to thaw frosty reception (Irish Independent)
15th April 2009
At teachers' conferences from Donegal to Kerry to Cork, it's all about the 3 Rs this week -- Recession, Recession, Recession...
Angry teachers give O’Keeffe the cold shoulder over cutbacks (Irish Independent)
15th April 2009
As
receptions go, the welcome afforded to Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe
at yesterday's teacher conferences was distinctly on the icy side...
Industrial action a step closer (Irish Independent)
15th April 2009
Industrial
action in primary and secondary-level schools moved a step closer
yesterday as teachers vented their fury over pay and education cuts...
Suppressed fury surfaces in reaction to O’Keeffe (Irish Times)
15th April 2009
The level of anger among primary school teachers bodes ill for the Government...
Dublin’s Talking (Dublin Country)
15th April 2009
Criticism of education cutbacks – Interview Peter Mullan (INTO).
North Cork Today (C103N)
15th April 2009
Cork City Councillor
Gerry Kelly discusses Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s reception at
the three major teachers’ union conferences for the INTO, ASTI and TUI
nationwide this week, as well as protests and possible action against
education cutbacks.
O'Keeffe receives frosty reception (Irish Times)
15th April 2009
Minister
for Education Batt O’Keeffe was once again met with a frosty reception
by teachers as he addressed the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) annual
conference today...
Union head blames 'cowboy' bailout for job losses and bigger class sizes (Irish Times)
15th April 2009
INTO:
Teachers who had no part in the country’s economic collapse bitterly
resent “having their pockets picked” to bail out bankers, speculators
and developers, Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) General
Secretary John Carr told the union’s annual conference yesterday...
Furious teachers walk out on Batt (Evening Echo)
15th April 2009
Morethan
50 disgruntled teachers staged a walk-out during an address by the
Minster for Education, Batt O'Keeffe in Donegal this morning. At the
Irish National Teachers Organisation's (INTO) annual conference...
O’Keeffe goes out to batt (Star)
15th April 2009
Angry
teachers have been told by Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe that
everyone in Ireland must "grin and bear it" in the face of massive
spending cuts. O'Keeffe was given a frosty reception...
Furious teachers unhappy with Education Minister (Finn Valley Post)
15th April 2009
Anger
and frustration are two words that could sum up the reaction of over
one thousand teachers yesterday at Letterkenny's biggest ever trade
union conference....
School strikes move a step closer (Herald AM)
15th April 2009
Industrial
action in primary and secondary level schools moved a step closer
yesterday as teachers vented their growing anger over pay and education
cuts...
Nine O’Clock News (RTE One)
14th April 2009
Primary school teachers are to call on the ICTU to hold a day of action before June to defend public services and jobs.
Nine News (Today FM)
14th April 2009
The INTO has accused the
Government of making young children pay for the mistakes of bankers and
developers by implementing education cutbacks. Interview with John
Carr, INTO.
Six News (Today FM)
14th April 2009
Cool reception for Education Minister at ASTI and INTO conference.
The Last Word (Today FM)
14th April 2009
Interview with Declan Kelleher (INTO) and Ed Walsh (University of Limerick) who discuss investment in Education.
The Right Hook (Newstalk)
14th April 2009
Interview with Paul
Rowe (Educate Together) who says recent increase in birth rates will
result in shortage of school places. John Carr (INTO) discusses
Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe’s appearance at the INTO
conference.
News on Two (RTE Two)
14th April 2009
Primary school teachers are to call on the ICTU to hold a day of action before June to defend public services and jobs.
News at One (RTE Radio 1)
14th April 2009
Minister unfazed by teachers' walk out during his INTO conference address.
National Lunchtime News (Today FM)
14th April 2009
Education Minister gets frosty reception from INTO members as teachers conference season proceeds.
On the Record (KCLR)
14th April 2009
Angela Dunne (former
president, Irish National Teachers’ Organisation) discusses her
Organisation’s conference in Letterkenny and the reception of the
Education Minister Batt O’Keefe.
Eleven News (Cork 96FM)
14th April 2009
A number of teachers walked out on the INTO’s Annual Conference this morning during an address by the Minister for Education.
Pat Kenny (RTE Radio 1)
14th April 2009
INTO conference and the address by Minister O’Keeffe discussed.
Morning Ireland (RTE Radio 1)
14th April 2009
INTO
President accuses Government over IBEC. Colman O’Sullivan speaks with
primary school teachers arriving at the INTO conference in Letterkenny
last night. Education correspondent Emma O’Kelly discusses what awaits
the Minister for Education at the teachers’ conference.
Special needs children given ‘doubly cruel blow’ (Irish Examiner)
14th April 2009
Hundres
of children from poor areas whose special classes have been axed have
been dealt a doubly cruel blow, a teachers' conference heard last
night. Irish National Teachers' Organisation...
Ireland AM (TV3)
14th April 2009
Education Minister to address primary teachers annual conference today.
Tipp Today (Tipp FM)
14th April 2009
Aidan Gaughran (INTO
Branch Secretary, Clonmel) discusses the reception of Education
Minister Batt O’Keeffe at the Organisation's annual meeting in
Letterkenny, education cuts and prefabricated accommodation.
Joe Finnegan (Northern Sound)
14th April 2009
Helen O’Gorman
(Longford delegate, INTO) discusses the INTO’s annual meeting protests
against Education Minister Batt O’Keefe appearance at the conference
and prefabricated accommodation.
McGurk on 4 (4FM)
14th April 2009
Interview with Declan Kelleher (INTO) and Sean Flynn (Irish Times) who discuss the INTO conference and investment in education.
Morning Focus (Clare FM)
14th April 2009
Interview with Declan
Kelleher of the INTO who discusses what teachers' organisations will be
putting to the Education Minister when he addresses an annual
conference taking place today.
The Morning Show (East Coast FM)
14th April 2009
INTO holding
their annual conference in Letterkenny – John Boyle of the INTO discuss
the reception that Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe received.
Midlands Today (Midlands Radio 103)
14th April 2009
Helen
O’Gorman (Midlands Representative, INTO) and teacher Nieve Campion
(Newtown National School, Crettyard) discuss the use of prefabricated
accommodation in schools.
Call to maintain vital special needs posts (Irish Independent)
14th April 2009
The
value for money review of the special needs assistants must not lead to
the withdrawal of essential supports for children, teachers said last
night…
Crisis looms as primary schools enrolments to rise by a third (Irish Independent)
14th April 2009
Primary school enrolments are set to rocket by a third over the next 15 years….
Free pre-school plan is branded a pretence (Irish Independent)
14th April 2009
The
head of a primary school teachers’ union has dismissed the Government's
plan for a year's free pre-school for all three-to-four-year-olds as "a
pretence".
Leadership by the left called for by the president of the INTO (Irish Times)
14th April 2009
The Leader of one of the main teachers' unions has called for a change in the direction of Government…
No jobs for over 2,000 newly qualified teachers, say unions (Irish Times)
14th April 2009
More than 2,000 student teachers due to qualify this summer will be unable to find teaching posts…
O'Keeffe gets silent treatment (Irish Times)
14th April 2009
Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe today received a frosty reception at teachers' conferences...
O’Keeffe to face the ire of teachers over classroom cuts (Irish Independent)
14th April 2009
Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe today faces the full brant of teacher fury...
Perfect education storm looms when first bell sounds for Batt (Irish Independent)
14th April 2009
We had been told that primary enrolments would go up to 100,000, but now it could be 170,000.
Schools face crisis as pupil numbers surge 33pc (Irish Independent)
14th April 2009
Huge strains on our education system were forecast last night...
We must see fairness from the top down – Irish Examiner
14th April 2009
INTO critical of government failure…
Loose Talk (LMFM)
14th April 2009
Declan Kelleher (President,
INTO) discusses the teachers’ union conferences and reception of the
Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe at the INTO meeting in Letterkenny.
Lunchtime (Newstalk)
14th April 2009
Education issues
discussed as TUI, INTO and the ASTI conferences are held this week –
Interviews: Batt O'Keefe and Declan Kelleher (INTO).
Deise AM (WLR)
14th April 2009
Brendan Horan, (Waterford District Committee, INTO) and Education Minister Batt O’Keefe speech to the INTO conference.
Absenteeism in Westmeath’s secondary schools one of highest in country (Athlone Voice)
14th April 2009
At twenty percent, Westmeath secondary schools rank third on the pupil absenteeism list...
Minister gets education in class politics – Evening Herald
14th April 2009
Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe faces a tough round of teacher conferences this week...
Teachers voice anger at meeting (Metro)
14th April 2009
Hundreds of delegates from the INTO gathered in Letterkenny, Co Donegal last night for its annual conference...
Worrying trend in school absenteeism shown in report (Irish Times)
13th April 2009
More than 20 per cent of secondary school pupils in certain counties are absent from class for a month...
Nine O’Clock News (RTE One)
13th April 2009
INTO
conference opens in Letterkenny. INTO President told delegates that the
Government will reap the rewards of cuts to education.
Six One News (RTE One)
13th April 2009
Emma O’Kelly reports on the INTO conference in Letterkenny
News at One (RTE Radio One)
13th April 2009
Emma O’Kelly reports on the INTO Conference.
Interview with John Carr (Morning Ireland – RTE Radio One)
13th April 2009
Discussion on INTO Congress.
Breakfast Show (Newstalk)
13th April 2009
Interview with Declan Kelleher (INTO) who discusses the INTO Conference in Letterkenny.
Teachers targeted for cuts in paid sick leave (Sunday Tribune)
12th April 2009
School teachers could be facing cuts in the amount of uncertified sick leave they can claim...
Prefab rental costs schools EUR52m as teachers face sack (Irish Daily Mail)
11th April 2009
Schools will spend as much as EUR48million on renting prefabs this year – at a time when 2,000 teachers face the sack...
Teachers conference boost (Donegal News)
10th April 2009
Letterkenny will get a major boost next week when over 1,000 delegates will attend the 141st Congress of the INTO...
The Last Word (Today FM)
9th April 2009
Teachers in the UK are
suggesting that primary school children should not be given homework.
Interview with Philip Mudge (National Parents' Council) and Declan
Kelleher (INTO).
Minister for Education appoints members to Teaching Council (Athlone Topic)
9th April 2009
Minister for Education and Science, Batt O'Keeffe appointed 37 members to the Teaching Council...
Top Of The Table (Drogheda Leader)
8th April 2009
Pat McQuaile is new Chairperson of Teaching Council...
We cut education spending at our peril (Irish Times)
Aidan Gaughran
7th April 2009
Schools in dark on State Building Schemes (Irish Independent)
7th April 2009
Education
Minister Batt O’Keeffe is under fire after publishing a school building
programme that only provides “partial information”.
INTO calls for publication of school list (Irish Examiner)
6th April 2009
Teachers
have called for Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe to immediately publish
the prioritisation of all school building projects...
O’Keeffe in last-minute change to school list (Irish Examiner)
6th April 2009
Two schools were added to a building announcement at the last minute by Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe...
Motions at the INTO Congress (Sunday Business Post)
5th April 2009
The
first motion at the INTO annual congress will call for teachers to
oppose "most vigorously" all attempts by the government to change pay
or working conditions...
INTO Chief says education not ‘fodder for the economy’ (Sunday Business Post)
5th April 2009
The INTO has warned of dire consequences for society if schools are subjected to funding cuts...
Teachers call for pre-school education for all children under the age of four (Sunday Business Post)
5th April 2009
Teachers have called for the introduction of universal early childhood care for all children...
The write stuff! (Offaly Independent)
4th April 2008
The Offaly winners of the EBS/ INTO Handwriting Competition...
You’ve got to hand it to Laois students (Laoise Nationalist)
3rd April 2009
Laois youngsters were awarded and commended for their high quality writing last week...
Schools building impasse slammed (Letterkenny Post)
2nd April 2009
TheDepartment of Education has been accused of allowing Donegal schoolchildren to be taught in buildings that are "unsafe"...
Primary teachers consider joining work to rule (Irish Independent)
1st April 2009
It’ll blow all the progress she’s made (Irish Examiner)
1st April 2009
Junior students show they have the write stuff (Mid-Louth Independent)
1st April 2009
Some 82 schools from Louth participated in this INTO/EBS Schools Handwriting Competition...
National Handwriting Awards (Leinster Express)
1st April 2009
National Handwriting Awards EBS in conjunction with the INTO...
Morning Focus (Clare FM)
1st April 2009
INTO
protest took place last night outside Leinster House against cutbacks
in special needs education – Interview with Declan Kelleher (President,
INTO).
1st April 2009
Hundreds of people took to the streets yesterday to protest...