Taoiseach Simon Harris has distanced his party from a jibe against teachers by Michael O’Leary as he spoke at a campaign event in support of Fine Gael’s Peter Burke.
Speaking to us today, O’Leary stood by his suggestion that we need less teachers in the Dáil. We got reaction to his comments with Michael Gillespie, General Secretary of Teachers Union of Ireland and former teacher of Physics and Science .
