Raging Ed gets an economics lesson [Herald.ie]
- Published: 09 April 2010
AN UNRULY classroom at the INTO conference brought Ed Walsh, founding president of the University of Limerick, to the Lunchtime show on Newstalk. Ed was in a big snit over the reception that teachers gave Minister for Education Mary Coughlan at the INTO conference.
"Teachers are supposed to be leaders," he whuffled. "Whoever banged the bung out of the boat, the boat is sinking," he fulminated over the "unpatriotic" behaviour.
"Despite the cuts, they're paid 20pc more than their counterparts in the UK, they teach one of the shortest school years in the world . . . they've 21 days of undocumented sick leave -- so they're a pampered group."
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