IPPN

Published: 13 January 2010

EDUCATION Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s decision last week to close all schools because of the weather was ridiculous, but surely it was even more ridiculous for him then to announce they should reopen yesterday.

I’m sure that, like me, many people had made other plans for the week.

And not only that, but the minister decided to reopen them when the snow was melting, but the slush hardened again in some places, making conditions lethal for children and parents.

Mr O’Keeffe, it seems, cannot make the right decisions no matter what the weather.

Cassandra McElligott
Avandiar House
Bawnboy
Tralee
Co Kerry

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Wednesday, January 13, 2010