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17th February 2021
On Wednesday’s Morning Focus, Gavin Grace spoke to Angie Gough from the Reopen Schools IRL (in real life) group and to Trish Lehane from Cratloe who is mother of two girls in primary school about the importance of the reopening of schools.
Clare Parents Call For Schools Re-Opening As Government Is Poised To Make Leaving Cert Decision
17th February 2021
Talks with unions have been continuing this morning ahead of a cabinet sub-committee meeting later.
Some of those issues related to whether oral and practicals will go ahead as part of a system that will include written exams and some element of predictive grades.
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There are also questions as to whether the Junior Cert will proceed.
It comes as a number of Clare parents make fresh calls for clarity on the re-opening of schools.
While yesterday saw multiple media outlets report that plans were afoot for schools to re-open from March 1st, on a phased basis, that hasn’t been set in stone.
history, eclipsing a record that stood for more than a quarter of a century and the winning team is here to tell us about their gold medal win today, august 11, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a saturday. i m lester hold. i m natalie morales. good to be here along with you, lester. of course, we have a lot of exciting news about the olympic games. still lots of competition going on with two more days to go. many of the athletes still have a chance to go for gold. but almost time for us to wrap things up. i m going to miss the weather. it s been gorgeous here over the last several days. but we ll talk olympics, but first, a bigger prize up for grabs at the white house. let s begin with the breaking news from overnight with nbc news republican presidential candidate mitt romney apparently poised to pick wisconsin congressman paul ryan to be his running mate. romney will make it official at a rally at 9:00 a.m. easter
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