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Green Party Councillor Malcolm Noonan has criticised his own party and the decision taken by the Minister for Education to increase class sizes.

Fine Gael Mayo Deputy John O’Mahony has found out through a parliamentary question that 2007/2008 school year figures show two classes in Mayo of 40 pupils or over and 2,065 with between 30 and 39 pupils. Since this is the situation before Fianna Fáil’s budget cutbacks come into effect, Deputy O’Mahony said the future for Mayo schools looked very bleak.

Parents of children attending a 109-year-old mice infested primary school in Co Galway are seeking an urgent meeting with Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe about getting a new school built in the area.

Carlow County Council will officially voice its opposition to proposed Government cutbacks in education following a unanimous decision to adopt a local Fine Gael motion.

If the Government is serious about providing a new primary school in Doughiska, then people in the area should not have to wait four years for it to be built.

Irish language consultancy and training company Gaelchultúr has announced that it is running intensive Irish oral preparatory courses for Leaving Cert students in 15 centres across Ireland this spring.

Moving children with special needs into mainstream school classes is not only a bad move educationally, it will cost the State dearly, a local politician has warned.

A number of local politicians and election candidates have expressed their strong opposition to the reintroduction of third level fees.

A plea has been made to the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Éamon Ó Cuív, to put pressure on his colleague, Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe, to prevent the loss of teaching posts in rural schools.

Sinn Fein councillor Thérèse Ruane has described the government’s decision to cut the school building programme budget as short sighted and morally reprehensible. The Government, in the emergency budget, announced a €54 million cut in education and science capital expenditure including €30 million from the primary and post primary school building programmes.