Fears for exam students as weather keeps schools closed [Independent.ie]
- Published: 08 January 2010
MORE than 3,000 schools will remain shut today as parents face the prospect of widespread closures continuing into next week.
The cold forced about three-quarters of the country's schools to postpone the start of the new term yesterday.
The schools remain shut not just because of treacherous roads and hazardous school grounds, but also, in some cases, because of frozen or leaking pipes or burst heating boilers.
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