Minster for Education Richard Bruton was on RTE’s Morning Ireland programme on Wednesday 26th October and had some interesting perspectives on the teacher strike. Some are his/DES perspective and just that. Not necessarily right, not necessarily wrong. The ASTI also have their perspective. Perspectives are only useful when trying to apportion […]
Monthly Archives: October 2016
I am a strong believer that it takes a village to rare a child. Teachers are only part of the equation and long before I became a parent myself, I understood clearly the value of parental involvement in the education of a child. Indeed, far too many parents ignore this […]
Unequal Pay Is Wrong And The National Parents Council Should ...
So I promised a solution. And then it hit me that I promised a solution! The fact is, from where we are, I cannot see a meaningful solution. Tomorrow, there will be some sort of talks, and both sides may come out and give wildly different accounts of what was […]
The Good Wednesday Agreement?
Ah, no you may say. Surely there is no connection between these three thingymabobs. Two certainly, but not three. But as this is Maths/Numeracy Week, here goes. The fundamental problem with the Celtic Tiger was NOT the Social Partnership agreements. These agreements offered the foundation for industrial peace. However, the foundation was […]
The Celtic Tiger, The Lansdowne Road Agreement and the ASTI ...
10 I’ve never been one to view worker-employer relationships as a them-and-us construct. The lack of human capacity to truly accept responsibility for one’s actions, and the underlying cowardice that can’t but pursue expedient escape routes has meant that there always will be plenty of blame to spread around conflicting parties. We should always be careful […]