Lack of resources has forced a well-respected secondary school in Co Mayo to amalgamate ordinary and honours levels Leaving Cert Irish classes.

Education Minister Mary Hanafin could face High Court action over her requirement that English be introduced in all-Irish schools no later than January of Junior Infants year.

Education Ministers from north and south differed radically in the views they expressed at the launch of Foras na Gaeilge’s GLEO scheme in Dublin earlier this month.

The Minister’s circular compels Irish-medium primary schools to provide 2.5 hours of formal English language instruction per week by the second term of Junior Infants …