'Urgent action’ needed to open schools next week [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 08 January 2010
PARENTS will still be unsure on Sunday if schools can open next week unless the Government takes urgent action to make roads safe, a teachers’ leader has warned.
About half the country’s 4,000 schools did not reopen after Christmas holidays yesterday morning because of the cold weather and dangerous road conditions. Most schools in Donegal and Kerry stayed shut and hundreds more in various parts of the country also kept their doors closed, either because of problems with heating systems, burst pipes or unsafe roads in rural areas.
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