IPPN

Published: 11 January 2010

Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe was tonight accused of a humiliating u-turn after ordering a nationwide school closure only to reverse it on the first day of the shutdown.

Many of the country’s 4,000 primary and secondary schools were making plans to reopen tomorrow after forecast snow did not fall and an unexpected thaw slowly took hold.

Fine Gael’s education spokesman Brian Hayes claimed the minister had been forced into an embarrassing climbdown.