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Teachers hired by boards go without pay as funds dry up

Pupils during a lesson in a remote school. [File, Standard]

Thousands of teachers and support staff have gone without salaries for two months as the Covid-19 pandemic plunges institutions into a financial crisis.

The 31,000 primary and secondary schools have at least 72,000 teachers recruited by Boards of Management (BoMs) besides thousands of non-teaching staff. 

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