ANOTHER BLOW FOR MNA TI IN GALWAY GAELTACHT

Date Published: 13-Feb-2012

Mná Tí in the Galway gaeltacht and students who hope to become primary school teachers are set to lose out due to the abolition of a government grant

The grant of 636 euro per student was to cover the cost of 3 weeks of training in the Gaeltacht.

Galway Sinn Féin Senator, Trevor O' Clochartaigh, has raised the issued in the Seanad, where he called on the Minister for Education to reverse the decision.