Irish Primary School Principals striving to secure necessary changes to support school leaders & safeguard our education system. principalsforum.org
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Principals - please check your school inbox and sign NPF Petition sent on Friday. It requires timely engagment. Please share link with fellow Principals across the country. Wishing you all a restorative Easter Break.
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Thanks Minister Naughton for your engagement & for listening to the operational experience of school leaders implementing education policy on the ground. Ensuring alignment between responsibility, authority & resources is key. We look forward to continued constructive engagement.
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The National Principals Forum met with the Minister today to discuss key challenges facing primary school leadership. We highlighted the need for:
• Sustainable principal roles
• Stronger inclusion and SEN structures & data collection
• Funding that reflects our reality
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Thanks Minister Naughton for your engagement & for listening to the operational experience of school leaders implementing education policy on the ground. Ensuring alignment between responsibility, authority & resources is key. We look forward to continued constructive engagement
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25 Sep 2025
Happy SNA Appreciation Day to all our wonderful colleagues. Thank you for your collegiality, friendship, hard work and good humour, for all you do and the difference you make in the lives of our pupils. @forsa_union_ie
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24 Sep 2025
We are deeply concerned & frustrated by the NCSE SNA Review Guidelines, which will inevitably lead to yet more unwarranted & unsustainable cuts to our most vulnerable pupils & will severely impact the educational experiences of all pupils.Please sign&share chng.it/rcvxWvt2zc
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5 Sep 2025
Brilliant news. Well done @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs Hopefully full and fair resolution is reached. Fair play 🙌 We are so relieved too to have our colleagues back on Monday.
5 Sep 2025
📢Strike Withdrawn - well done to secretaries & caretakers!!
After agreement at the WRC with:
- Commitment to negotiate comparable pension entitlements
- Discussions on caretakers' pay framework
- Access to bereavement, sick & acute illness protocols
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A tough week. We hope you are all OK. We stand with our secretaries & caretakers & hope for reason & fairness to prevail & a positive resolution to the strike. Stay strong 💪 #pensionparity @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs
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National Principals' Forum retweeted
3 Sep 2025
On paper, that looks supportive; in practice, it outsources the risk to principals and teachers. bit.ly/46iwVbp
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29 Aug 2025
Great to see. Our secretaries and caretakers need the support of colleagues, management, school communities to bring this strike to a positive resolution. #PayParity @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs
29 Aug 2025
We stand with our secretary in Loughmore NS #PayParity @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs @TippFM @TipperaryLive
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27 Aug 2025
Wishing the very best of luck to our secretary and caretaker colleagues starting their just strike tomorrow. We value you. You are not alone. We hope for a swift and fair resolution. Our schools will be lost without you. #PensionParityNow @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs
26 Aug 2025
📣 STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE
📣 NOW NOW NOW
📣 PENSIONS PENSIONS PENSIONS
📣 NOW NOW NOW
Dublin this evening! Caretakers and secretaries are ready to take on the government.
See you all outside the Dept of Public Expenditure this Thursday 28th at 11am.
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National Principals' Forum retweeted
18 Aug 2025
This is my grandmother Margaret. She has been a school secretary for 28 years. She will retire without an occupational pension.
This is wrong - Pension Parity should be given to all!
The Minister must act to avoid strike!
@HMcEntee @Education_Ire @labour @forsa_union_ie
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National Principals' Forum retweeted
19 Aug 2025
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David Hearne, Chairperson of school caretakers. His personal story. Very moving. #strikestrikestrike
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16 Aug 2025
Our school secretaries are invaluable in our schools. They deserve all of our support.
15 Aug 2025
Why are school secretaries & caretakers going on strike?
Listen to Fórsa member Victoria Luke on Claire Byrne explain the deep injustice that has forced this action.
The Dept of Public Expenditure still had time to avoid the chaos, if they do the right thing.
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14 Mar 2025
Chronic underfunding of schools was a key issue we raised with Oireachtas Members in Leinster House last June. Sadly, this could become the reality for many more schools if nothing changes.
14 Mar 2025
The principal of a Dublin school has said it will have to close because it can no longer afford to pay basic bills breakingnews.ie/ireland/dubl…
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26 Feb 2025
NPF's Alan Kelly will feature on tonight's show, highlighting the issues we principals wish to raise in relation to the systemic inadequacy of supports for our pupils with additional needs.
26 Feb 2025
Live from 10pm, @gavreilly will be joined by Rebecca Meehan, Micheál Carrigy, Claire Kerrane, Alan Kelly and Niamh Griffin to discuss:
🚨 The chronic shortage of services for children with special needs.
🚨 Deadlock on Dáil speaking rights
#TonightVMTV
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14 Feb 2025
Some of our dedicated @ForumTeaching lobbyists at a recent planning meeting, keeping the issues in need of support and progress to the fore of our work. #UnitedForIntegrity
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Wishing a Happy World Teacher's Day to all the great educators across the country. Individually and collectively, your hard work, expertise, care and dedication makes a huge difference to the lives of our students, despite the systemic challenges we face. #WorldTeachersDay2024
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