Members of a range of public sector unions joined mass work stoppages today

THREE five-year-olds living on the same street in an estate in Killeshin will be going to different primary schools next September because of what parents allege is a ‘problematic’ new admissions policy at Killeshin NS.

Norma Foley said she is prepared to ‘look at everything on the table’, as many schools struggle to secure enough staff for the academic year.

Newly qualified teachers who take up a full-time role for the coming school year will receive the payment next summer

Protests were held at Belfast City Hall and at RTÉ in Dublin

The general secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation John Boyle has retracted comments he made about the Minister for Education when he suggested that she had reneged on a commitment she made earlier this year about post responsibility