{"id":412713,"date":"2026-03-31T05:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/412713\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:33:23","slug":"shorter-school-days-and-more-breaks-under-review-as-dail-grouping-eyes-finnish-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/412713\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter school days and more breaks under review\u00a0as D\u00e1il grouping eyes Finnish model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Members of the  education committee said Irish curriculums are \u2018overloaded\u2019 and must be reduced\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clare Fianna F\u00e1il TD Cathal Crowe is chair of the D\u00e1il's education committee. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SN Cathal Crowe 2.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)\">Clare Fianna F\u00e1il TD Cathal Crowe is chair of the D\u00e1il&#8217;s education committee. Photo: Collins<\/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)\">Shorter school days and more breaks for students have been recommended by a D\u00e1il committee, which has looked to move the Irish education system towards a Finnish model.<\/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)\">Members of the D\u00e1il\u2019s Education Committee said Irish curriculums are \u201coverloaded\u201d and must be reduced, with schools \u201cencouraged to focus on nature and outdoor activities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the education committee said Irish curriculums are \u2018overloaded\u2019 and must be reduced Clare Fianna F\u00e1il TD&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,14566,4767,13264,52,13,14,4771,553,2427,6,11,12,15,16,5,47,18578,7,8,4892,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-412713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cao-points","tag-dail-eireann","tag-department-of-education","tag-dublin","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-finland","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-sinn-fein","tag-social-democrats","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wayne-oconnor","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116322160214406902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412713","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=412713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}