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thewobbler

In your recent column in the Newry Democrat when you announced the appointment of wee Hughie McGettigan as your new manager, you claimed that he had taken his former club, Creggan to unprecedented heights (I may be paraphrasing, but the point is the same).  Could you explain what this means please?

I've just started the hDip equivalent over in England

They believed the guff you wrote in that personal statement of yours then?

BTW Ciaran where did you get this statistic........

Another point to mention is that there were 17,500 applicants for 1100 teaching jobs. Getting started and getting a permanant post isn't that easy.

In N.Ireland, we have a shortage of teachers in many fields.  It is quite difficult to recruit and retain good teachers in a whole range of subjects in secondary schools.  We don't have 17,500 teachers in N.ireland who are currently seeking a job!

I think the quote should read 17,500 applications, rather than applicants.

O'Neill has it spot on, don't teach looking for glory. Once you realise there will always be those who don't share your thirst for knowledge or who don't appreciate what you're trying to do you'll be okay.  Learn not to take anything personally and you'll love it.  As long as the wee feckers keep you off ratemyteachers that is.

The worst thing about teaching is that this board is banned on the C2K network.  Surely a man in TYP's position (or indeed our other principal) could sort something out for us. Either that or I'll tell Fearon that no soccer, rugby, hockey et al. boards are banned and he can play the sectarian card.