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Over 300 new resource teaching posts for children with special needs announced

Details of the allocations will be revealed this afternoon.

AN EXTRA 302 teacher posts to support students with special educational needs have been announced today.

In the last two school years, the number of resource teacher posts has increased by 15% (939), from 5,265 to 6,204.

The CEO of the National Council for Special Education, Teresa Griffin, said:

“The NCSE wants students to achieve their potential and research is clear that the quality of teaching is a key determinant in delivering better outcomes for students.”

The total number of teachers in primary and post-primary schools is 56,735.

Over 11,000 (19%) of these are additional learning support and resource teachers.

Details of the resource teaching allocations for every school will be available on www.ncse.ie at 3pm this afternoon.

Read: Almost 3,000 children are waiting over a year for speech and language therapy>

Read: Parents’ shock at €500k cut to disability services for children>

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    Mute Lára de Siúin
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:33 PM

    I’m assuming crimes like this aren’t THAT rare? How come this one in particular is being publicised?

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:35 PM

    its a filler lara, sunday afternoon not much happening.

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    Mute Lára de Siúin
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:36 PM

    I was just thinking that today had been a pretty tame day, news-wise! (I’m not complaining, no news is good news!)

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    Mute Philip Cooper
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:36 PM

    Anything over €800 is news.

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    Mute George Grey
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:47 PM

    They’ll be dragged to justice!

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    Mute Paddy Mac
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:59 PM

    I heard someone stole a traffic cone and a county council sign in Castlebar last night, no suspects.

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    Mute Tara
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    Jul 6th 2014, 9:03 PM

    I worked in retail and one woman stole over €1000 worth of perfume and clothes and that never made the news… Only staff were informed and she returned to the scene of the crime a few days later to try her hand again and was arrested!

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    Mute Joey Style
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    Jul 6th 2014, 10:36 PM

    Articles like this are why TheJournal are losing subscribers by the thousands every month. 90% of the ‘news’ here is copied from elsewhere with just the headline changed. The only thing thats keeping it going is probably the comments factor

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:43 PM

    Why is this in IRISH NEWS?

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    Mute Joan Featherstone
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:59 PM

    Why is it ANY news in the greater pool called world news….the journal’s not what it was when it started out.

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    Mute Alexoz
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    Jul 6th 2014, 9:08 PM

    Cause Irish Suspects!… (Ok I take my coat!..)

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    Mute Patrick Bateman
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:46 PM

    This article boggles the mind..

    A clothes theft in the UK with shocking quality pictures??

    Cliodhna are you hungover to füčk writing this one up or wha..

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    Mute Garry O'Leary
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:13 PM

    Ok seriously…..WHY is this in Irish News…Journal.ie is getting worse by the week with the amount of non-stories & non-news rubbish on it !!

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    Mute O Swetenham
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:40 PM

    They’re probably well on their way to Mexico now with their whopping £800 haul of womens clothing

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:44 PM

    lol

    dressed as women………………………..

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    Mute James Dibble
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:59 PM

    You lol at everything – I’m dubious

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    Mute John Xavier
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    Jul 6th 2014, 8:35 PM

    If you’re going to republish UK news at least take out the bit that’s only relevant to those living in the UK.

    “Anyone with information should call police on 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111″

    We cannot call police on ’101′ in Ireland, we can’t call UK 0800 numbers from Ireland either…..

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    Mute Shane Walsh
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    Jul 6th 2014, 9:48 PM

    Blatant copy and paste job

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    Mute Joe Corleone
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:12 PM

    Here’s a good story for ya, why don’t ya search AFP or AP so ya can copy n paste a story on how the Syrian Arab Army wiped out most of ISIS top commanders in a raid on the city of Raqqa yesterday, much more newsworthy than this shite..

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:21 PM

    joe
    the journal is a neocon pro israeli rag, do you honestly think that they are going to tell the truth about the middle east?

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    Mute Shane Walsh
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:02 PM

    Pointless article! A jewellery shop in Tallaght was robbed of a lot more than that recently.

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:07 PM

    and tallaght is in ireland, this is english news in the irish section.

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    Mute Frank
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:38 PM

    They missed Dublin pride by a week…

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    Mute Ron North
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    Jul 6th 2014, 8:21 PM

    Another +1 for #TeamFrank.

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    Mute Michael
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:46 PM

    This happens every week in retail parks nothing new. Boucher Rd in Belfast, blanchardstown retail park nearly daily.

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    Mute Charlie Mountney
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    Jul 6th 2014, 10:29 PM

    Do Journal ever read the comments to see how disappointing their reporting of news stories is getting and how obvious it is becoming. In the couple of months I have been reading it has got worse. This article reaches a new low.

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 6th 2014, 10:35 PM

    they don’t care, it’s not a news site it’s a repeat site, terrible really, critize isrel and ask questions about z io nism and you’re banned

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    Mute Costelloe
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    Jul 6th 2014, 10:44 PM

    Pro copy and paste job here.

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    Mute the flying picket
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:02 PM

    Police looking for 3 cross dressers !

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    Mute Blanaid Aughney
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:18 PM

    I heard they were in a bad mood as well.

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    Mute James Dibble
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:32 PM

    On the run ? They were caught and fled custody?

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    Mute James Dibble
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:09 PM

    Quite a few don’t know what
    “on the run” means

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    Mute Boganity
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    Jul 6th 2014, 11:14 PM

    Why would the Journal think someone shop lifting in a foreign country would be a news worthy story ?

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    Mute Anthony Gelston
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    Jul 6th 2014, 8:14 PM

    Wow. Breaking news from the journal.

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    Mute Pickart Solny
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:09 PM

    Writing news stories for children can be difficult.

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    Mute Angrier Physio
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    Jul 6th 2014, 8:14 PM

    I NEED MY HIT OF GARTH BROOKS NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

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    Mute Sam Bartell
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    Jul 6th 2014, 8:28 PM

    Hardly the french connection is it?

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 6th 2014, 10:33 PM

    lol

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    Mute SeekingUniverslTruth
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    Jul 6th 2014, 6:34 PM

    Why oh Why?
    They could have bought all the clothes on alibaba.com for £100 and sold them at a nice profit

    No brains these people.

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    Mute Steve McMahon
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    Jul 6th 2014, 8:51 PM

    They prob gone to Brazil now . No extradition there so they can spend all that 800 quid worth of clothes

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    Mute The Peasant
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    Jul 6th 2014, 7:06 PM

    B*stards.

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    Mute Jackie o'riordan
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    Jul 6th 2014, 8:59 PM

    These robbers are’nt just any old robbers they’re …………………

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    Mute Dannster
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    Jul 6th 2014, 9:40 PM

    dirty robbing bitches

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    Mute Paul Tydings
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    Jul 7th 2014, 2:14 PM

    Why is journal not responding to fact that is coping and pasting uk news…

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