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And scotland will be fully or partially closed today, because of concerns about crumbling concrete. Investigations are also under way in schools in wales and Northern Ireland. Ministers have promised to speed up checks on schools where the material, known as raac, may have been used. 0ur reporter Louisa Pilbeam reports. From the midlands to suffolk. And london. More than 100 schools in england look like this today, with buildings roped off and closed on what for many should be the first day of the new term. The problem crumbling concrete called raac, meaning many schools are unsafe. Sarah, a mum of two who didnt want to be on camera, told us. The main issue for me is we dont have any certainty about when the children are going Back To School. The lack of certainty right now is worrying for everyone. The school havent b ....
Fintan O’Toole, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals, is a columnist for <i>The Irish Times</i> and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University. He also contributes to <i>The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Granta, The Guardian, The Observer</i>, and other international publications. His books on theater include works on William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Thomas Murphy. His books on politics include the bestsellers <i>We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland</i>; <i>Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain</i>; <i>Ship of Fools</i>; and <i>Enough is Enough</i>. In 2011, <i>The Observer</i> named O’Toole one of “Britain’s top 300 intellectuals.” He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award, th ....