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21 Oct 2025

Work colleagues come out to support staff who are on strike in Tipperary schools

Secretaries and caretakers in a battle to end pension discrimination

Work colleagues come out to support staff who are on strike in Tipperary schools

Bunscoil Na Cathrach Principal Brendan Horan & staff supporting School Secretaries Aileen Smith and Michelle O'Brien with teachers Bridget Lambert and Fiona Fitzgerald

Up to 100 school secretaries and caretakers are on indefinite strike throughout Tipperary.

School staff from Tipperary schools attended a Forsa trade union rally in Dublin last Thursday and in Cork on Friday and from Monday placed pickets on over 70 schools in the county.

READ MORE: Tipperary school staff are on strike to highlight pension inequality

One of the schools affected on Monday was the Bunscoil Na Cathrach, where Principal Brendan Horan and teachers Bridget Lambert and Fiona Fitzgerald came out to support school secretaries Aileen Smith and Michelle O'Brien.

READ NEXT: Tipperary school secretaries and caretakers to join national strike

The strike is taking place in protest at their exclusion from public service pensions and basic entitlements.


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