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Local School Secretaries And Caretakers Stand Firm As Protests Continue Outside Offices Of TDs

Protests will continue until 2.30pm today.

"They want us deflated but we are not backing down."

That's the message being sent by school secretaries and caretakers who are currently protesting outside TDs offices across the county.

Annona Deegan, a secretary at Scoil Mhuire in Ballymore Eustace, said up to seventy people are currently outside the Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon's office in Newbridge.

She said other groups are protesting outside TDs offices north and south of the county.

Protests will continue until 2.30pm today. 

They will resume outside schools again tomorrow.

Andy Pike from Fórsa wants the Department of Education to engage with the union.

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