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24 Apr
Tough questions from Kilmeade pupils!
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on kildare-nationalist.ie
IF education minister Mary Hanafin plans to spend a lifetime in politics, then she has made a good start. The minister, who was visiting Scoil Ide Naofa, Kilmeade last week, must surely have guaranteed herself at least 213 votes from …... Continue reading »
22 Apr
Myers in Sensible Mode
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on irish-lawyer.com/journal
Mary Hanafin actually said that unless the European project was fully realised, the alternative was another Auschwitz. Merely because the Shinners were pockmarked savages with the blood of thousands of innocents on their hands in the …... Continue reading »
20 Apr
You can take the teacher out the school but….
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on 73man.blogspot.com
As soon as the funeral service [for Paddy Hillery] ended, Minister for Education Mary Hanafin made a beeline across St Fintan's cemetery to a group of school students who had been in attendance. She began to interrogate them, …... Continue reading »
Hanafin urged to “get off the fence” during testy Dáil debate on WIT
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on munster-express.ie
Education Minister Mary Hanafin was urged to “get off the fence” on the great WIT question.... Continue reading »
19 Apr
Do you know who’s teaching your child?
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on paddybloggit.com
Education Minister Mary Hanafin has admitted that there are no procedures in place to check the backgrounds of as many as 1000 untrained substitute teachers in primary and secondary schools. She said that it was up to each board of …... Continue reading »
15 Apr
Education is the Test
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on eastmeath.org/blog
Education Minister Mary Hanafin was last night accused of breaking her promise to cut class sizes as it emerged that the number of pupils in classes of 20 or below is falling. I think this statement is 100% factual. …... Continue reading »
10 things I hate about my job
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on paddybloggit.com
… Support Programme) advsiors, SDP (School Development Planning) advisors etc. who are bluffing their way through their respective jobs! Mary Hanafin and her likes - they have an agenda that is not conducive to the education system! …... Continue reading »
13 Apr
Hanafin defends Govt over primary-school funding
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on independent.ie/breaking-news
Education Minister Mary Hanafin is continuing to defend the Government's funding for education amid growing evidence that primary schools are facing a massive cash crisis.... Continue reading »
06 Apr
No Money for Hospital
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on eastmeath.org/blog
… will there be any money for the ten or so schools that need to be built in East Meath? I doubt it. There wasn’t even money there for this even when we thought we had money. Why not go and tell Mary Hanafin herself when she visits.... Continue reading »
Ó Cuív in the Big Apple
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on elblogador.blogspot.com
The likelihood is that Gaeltacht regions will be even further weakened; the jury is still out on the effectiveness of the Language Act; the Education Minister, Mary Hanafin, is doing her best to undermine the principle of tumoideachas …... Continue reading »
MINISTER HANAFIN VISITS EAST MEATH SCHOOLS
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on thomasbyrne.blogspot.com
I was delighted to be able to bring Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin TD on a visit today of five schools in East Meath to meet with pupils, staff, parents and Boards of Management. The schools included Whitecross …... Continue reading »
03 Apr
Government allocates €10 million to assist schools under the …
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on library.ie/weblog
The Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin, TD, and Minister of State at the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey, TD, announced almost €10 million in funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund and the …... Continue reading »
28 Mar
Mary Hanafin and the elusive €252m
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on anseo.net/blog
Teachers have been waiting for quite some time now for Mary Hanafin to announce when she will be releasing €252m for ICT in schools and the INTO annual congress is where she chose to tell us:. “Of course, I am conscious that ICT has …... Continue reading »
And we’ll do it our way,It’s our time to play. We know what to say …
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on blog.catholicireland.net
If Mary Hanafin gave you a warning, would you be scared? (more…)... Continue reading »
26 Mar
Age of anti-cassandra
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on eastmeath.org/blog
Education Minister Mary Hanafin has insisted that education is a priority for the Government, despite widespread evidence of under-investment in the sector. Lads if you can’t even get your kids into a prefab school, then the government …... Continue reading »
24 Mar
The Lost Art of Heckling
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on notesonthefront.typepad.com/politicaleconomy
The next time Minister Michael Martin addresses the Dail about knowledge capital, or Minister Mary Hanafin prattles on about ‘investing in our future’ or any other Minister talks about ‘world class educational institutions’ or ‘highly …... Continue reading »
14 Mar
Cathal O Searcaigh
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on twentymajor.net
His work won’t be removed from the Leaving Cert syllabus ‘this year’ but Minister for Education Mary Hanafin says ‘questions about the life of the poet “might cause difficulty”. I can see that, especially if they came up in the oral.... Continue reading »
06 Mar
There's Something About Mary
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on sccenglish.ie
… the former MEP Mary Banotti, a frequent visitor to the College, launched her new book There's Something about Mary, a series of interviews with 'Marys' in political life, including the current Minister for Education Mary Hanafin. …... Continue reading »
05 Mar
Hanafin ‘disrespecting Athy’ over community college building delay
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on kildare-nationalist.ie
The minister for education Mary Hanafin has been condemned by Athy Town Council for further delaying the construction of the community college.... Continue reading »
University: Cabinet is ‘powerless’ claim
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on munster-express.ie
Education Minister Mary Hanafin claims the cabinet has no say in whether WIT should become a university.... Continue reading »
Shag Off, Minister.
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on thedubliner.typepad.com/the_dubliner_magazine
But now the Minister for Education Mary Hanafin seems to want to do their bidding, announcing last week that she was “shocked and appalled” to discover that O'Searcaigh has been…having sex with men. …... Continue reading »
22 Feb
Compare and Contrast
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on hughgreen.wordpress.com
Education Minister Mary Hanafin said yesterday that there were “difficulties” with the inclusion of his poems on the exam curriculum. I have never read a poem by Cathal O Searcaigh. His poems may be brilliant, or they may be dreadful. …... Continue reading »
Hanafin blamed as Kildare schools left in planning limbo
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on kildare-nationalist.ie
A NUMBER of Co Kildare schools have been left in limbo following the failure of education minister Mary Hanafin to give the go-ahead for long-awaited replacement buildings.... Continue reading »
21 Feb
Fadó fadó i Nepal…
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on drumlingo.blogspot.com
I see Mary Hanafin, Min for Education is reviewing the presence on the Leaving Cert course of the poetry of Cathal O Searcaigh. I happened to be in company looking at that documentary about him, Fairytale of Katmandu. …... Continue reading »
Hanafin anger over Dáil ‘trap’
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on soapboxireland.blogspot.com
AN extraordinary war of words erupted between Mary Hanafin and Fine Gael last night as the Education Minister accused opponents of laying a Dáil trap for her. Under fire over her department’s treatment of pupils with autism, …... Continue reading »