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18:37 Minister for Education Mary Hanafin came under fire tonight as a row over class sizes took centre stage at two teachers’ annual conferences. More than 750 primary teachers in Kilkenny threatened industrial action unless class numbers were reduced. Meanwhile, some 500 second-level teachers in Killarney agreed that their union should establish a policy for a maximum class size of 20 for all subjects. Both groups claim the minister has failed to reduce class sizes as pledged in the Programme for Government before the last general election.
Hanafin comes under fire over class sizes
China pressed to re-open Tibet
21:32 China came under pressure at the United Nations' top human rights forum today to permit foreigners to re-enter Tibet and assess the consequences of Beijing's crackdown on recent protests and riots.Two teenage girls killed in Galway road crash
21:22 Two teenage girls were killed and two other people seriously injured in a road crash in Co Galway this afternoon.Iraqi forces battle for control of oil city
20:04 Iraqi security forces battled fighters loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra today in a drive to win control of the southern oil city.
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