1000 to apply for 70 teaching jobs

OVER 1,000 applicants are expected to apply for 70 teaching jobs in second level schools in the Galway-Roscommon area.
Over 70 posts are available in the Galway-Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) area, and GRETB Chairman Pat Gilmore expects a huge response.
“It’s very welcome news from a few years ago when new teaching jobs were scarce but since these have been advertised the applications have been coming in so quickly that we expect there will be well over 1,000.
“While schools such as Colaiste Bhaile Chláir (Claregalway) and Merlin College have the most vacancies, there is general growth in numbers in all our schools and so the jobs are spread out over all of Galway.'