RTE News Headlines<p>[13:33] Education funding 'paltry and pitiful' - TUI</p><p> The General Secretary of the Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) Michael Gillespie has said that the Irish education system continues to suffer from chronic and deliberate underfunding, which he described as a legacy of austerity prolonged by political indifference.</p><p> <a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2025/0422/1508870-tui-conference/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rte.ie/news/education/2025/042</span><span class="invisible">2/1508870-tui-conference/</span></a><br> <br> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/theTeachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theTeachers</span></a>'Union <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/MichaelGillespie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelGillespie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Irish</span></a></p>