Micheál Martin insists schools will reopen but calls for a rethink getting louder


“I am very conscious that as Taoiseach of this country we owe it to the children and the young people to enable them to have a proper quality learning experience and education experience,” he said. “We are going ahead with the school opening. I think we have taken steps now which will hopefully have an impact on [Covid-19] numbers.

But he faced hard questions from a teacher he met while visiting flood-hit Skibbereen a few hours later.