{"id":30079,"date":"2025-08-29T04:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30079\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:33:15","slug":"wexford-principal-forced-to-curtail-students-return-to-school-amid-forsa-strike-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30079\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford principal forced to curtail students\u2019 return to school amid F\u00f3rsa strike action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gorey Community School PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d0961370-6922-4da4-9fb7-c16d509819fb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gorey Community School PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A secondary school in Wexford has made the decision to curtail classes to first and sixth year students only as a result of strike action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Due to the F\u00f3rsa Strike Action which commenced today, Thursday, August 28, Gorey Community School has been left without secretarial and caretaking staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This comes after talks at the Workplace Relations Commission failed to come to a solution on a dispute regarding pensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Principal of Gorey Community School, Michael Finn said the decision was made to ensure the health and safety of all staff and students at the school. \u201cWe have over 540 students in today, which is nearly the size of some schools, so I\u2019m to review it to make sure that it is tenable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michael said secretarial and caretaking staff cover a huge number of roles in the school and said their absence has been challenging. \u201cWithout caretakers it\u2019s very difficult to maintain a safe and healthy environment for students and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He said the decision was made last night following confirmation of the strike action taking place. He said it was important to continue first year and sixth year classes as they are important years in terms of education and continuity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michael further said he understands why the secretarial and caretaking staff are on strike. \u201cIt is a very difficult situation, when you have colleagues in doing the same type of work, but yet with totally different conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWhile its certainly creating an inconvenience for the school and students, I can understand the logic behind it,\u201d Michael added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michael advise students and parents from other year groups do not try to access the school building during this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The situation will be monitored on a day to day basis. \u201cI will be contacting parents by email every evening on the situation,\u201d said Mr Finn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gorey Community School PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench A secondary school in Wexford has made the decision to curtail classes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[807,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-30079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-alan-white","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}