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EDUCATION CUTS COULD mean the end of rural Ireland as we know it, one councillor has warned ahead of a community meeting to fight increases in pupil-teacher ratios.
Cllr Declan Hurley, an Independent and the deputy mayor of Co Cork, said the Fine Gael/Labour coalition was making “the same mistakes” as the previous governments, and putting rural communities at risk. He suggested that the cuts will ultimately put rural schools at risk of closure.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie before addressing a meeting of the Save Our Small Schools campaign in the Parkway Hotel, Dunmanway this evening, Cllr Hurley said this would have a “knock-on effect” on entire communities. He added:
The way it’s going, rural Ireland could disappear. It’s slowly unravelling.
He said that rural institutions such as post offices, local shops and garda stations were all under threat, adding that such facilities were “the backbone of our society”.
Cllr Hurley also said that the decision to make cuts in schools was “pennywise and pound foolish”, warning that it would have effects down the line as children’s education suffered.
Education minister Ruairí Quinn recently acknowledged that the Government “made mistakes” in its handling of cuts to the DEIS scheme, which are now under review. However, it is pressing forward with plans to increase the pupil-teacher ratio in smaller schools.
Doesn’t seem to have the ability to dissolve the hostility against the arts itself though .
Is that how they’re trying to rationalise their relevance these days? Get a real job and pay some tax. Art is a hobby.
Yeah but what about the…… if fairness you speak the truth.
I’ll have to remember that next time I’m being mugged. Throw in a quick mime and all will be grand.
Bono inspired the saving of 60 million lives, what you do today?
I paid my taxes.
you must feel so proud ;)
Well if you’re some sort of artist or art student I can understand why you’d be so blasé about the idea of handing over 52% of the fruits of your labour in tax… because you’ve never done it.
Actually mate, been working since I was 16, just recently fcuked over like the rest of us, doesn’t mean I follow the stereotypical view that all artists do nothing nor do I blame them when it’s MY job I really hate
You should get a job you like.
I have one because I have a science degree.
That’s good for you don’t see why that’s any reason to hate on the artists for the taking 51% of your paycheque
how is they’re to blame?
or is it that you find yourself somewhat superior to what they do with your “science degree” ?
Postmodernism is vacuous and self-refuting.
Unfortunately the knuckle draggers rioting have no interest in art
Sad to see culture fall to make way for mass consumerism
Guess you could say its all going “one direction” ;)
If a tree falls on a mime in the forest does anyone care?
Cacotechny: A corruption or corrupt state of art. We’re all a corruption or corrupt state of art…..
The arts do indeed have that ability. But when everyone has a good laugh at themselves and they leave the experience they go out into the real world..
Arts have the ability to
bring people together in a common appreciation of all that is creative and wonderful.
and a hatred of mimes
Take money from tax payers who have no interested in the art they’re paying for.
Ye can’t deny that humanities are important for society at large, but…. pay some bloody tax!
How is it you know EVERY ONE of them isn’t paying any?
This article made me angry.
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