'If you can afford grinds, you're better off. If you can't, you'll fall behind'... The stark reality facing exam students because of a crisis covering leave with schools forced to rely on 13,540 UNQUALIFIED teachers in Irish classrooms

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A principal at a large post-primary school in south county Dublin describes a system in which leaders are forced to 'cover classes, merge groups and try to keep routines stable for children'