Controversial head leaves another school after staff vote for industrial action
Marcella Armstrong was recommended by the Archdiocese of Liverpool despite being investigated at her previous school
09:24, 31 JAN 2021
Updated
Marcella Armstrong, former head teacher of Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School, Bootle (Image: Liverpool Echo)
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The benefits system is at breaking point after it was revealed the department responsible was facing a “doomsday scenario” around funding.
At a meeting of Stormont’s Communities Committee yesterday it was learned that plans to hire 900 staff had been paused despite an increase of more than 126% in universal credit claimants over the past 10 months.
The number of claimants is expected to rise further when the UK Government’s furlough scheme ends.
Cherrie Arnold, director of finance at the Department for Communities, which oversees the benefits system, told MLAs that the wait for the majority of claimants for their first payment could rise from five to six or seven weeks, and there could be more staff absences and sickness due to the high workload.
Disqualified driver who ruined lives in crash is jailed for six years Brian Reilly (24) drove down wrong side of M50 to evade gardaí before ploughing into car of an elderly couple
Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 14:39 Isabel Hayes
The defendant fled the scene of the crash and was found by gardaí hiding behind a nearby bush, the court heard. File photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
A disqualified driver who drove down the wrong side of the M50 to evade gardaí before ploughing into the car of an elderly couple has been jailed for six years.
Brian Reilly (24) ruined the lives of John and Ellen Armstrong after he crashed into their car as they were stopped at a red light in Finglas in January last year, Judge Melanie Greally told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
A disqualified driver who drove down the wrong side of the M50 to evade gardaí before ploughing into the car of an elderly couple has been jailed for six years.
A disqualified driver who drove down the wrong side of the M50 to evade gardaí before ploughing into the car of an elderly couple has been jailed for six years.