Irish National Teachers' Organisation
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The Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO), in Irish
Cumann Múinteoirí Éireann, which was founded in 1868, is the largest teachers' trade union in Ireland. It represents teachers at primary level in the Republic of Ireland, and at primary and post-primary level in Northern Ireland. The head office is at Parnell Square, Dublin, there is also an office in Belfast. The current INTO President is Noreen Flynn (2011-2012); Sheila Nunan is the General Secretary in the Republic and Gerry Murphy is the Northern Secretary.
The objectives of the INTO are:
• To unite and organise the teachers of Ireland and to provide a means for the expression of their collective opinion on matters affecting the interests of education and of the teaching profession
• To safeguard and improve the conditions of employment of its members, and to promote their interests
• To regulate the relations between members and their fellow members, and between members and their employers
• To afford advice and assistance to individual members on professional matters
• To promote the interests of education and to support the concept of equal access to full education for all children, and to strive for the raising of educational standards
• To afford to the authorities responsible for the administration of education the collective advice and experience of the members
• To cultivate a spirit of fraternal co-operation with kindred organisations in this and other countries, to develop and maintain close links with retired members in Northern Ireland and the Retired Teachers' Association of Ireland (RTAI), and to build on and develop existing links with trade union bodies
• To establish and administer a Fund or Funds for the purpose of providing assistance to members and their dependents in accordance with the rules
• To encourage the promotion and development of Comhar Linn INTO Credit Union and other services and facilities of benefit to members
• To provide, either directly or indirectly, benefits and facilities for members; to procure either solely or with others, a building society or to promote the development of a building society for the purpose of providing mortgage and investment facilities for members
• To promote the principle of equality in all aspects of education and the teaching profession
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
Cumann Múinteoirí Éireann, which was founded in 1868, is the largest teachers' trade union in Ireland. It represents teachers at primary level in the Republic of Ireland, and at primary and post-primary level in Northern Ireland. The head office is at Parnell Square, Dublin, there is also an office in Belfast. The current INTO President is Noreen Flynn (2011-2012); Sheila Nunan is the General Secretary in the Republic and Gerry Murphy is the Northern Secretary.
The objectives of the INTO are:
• To unite and organise the teachers of Ireland and to provide a means for the expression of their collective opinion on matters affecting the interests of education and of the teaching profession
• To safeguard and improve the conditions of employment of its members, and to promote their interests
• To regulate the relations between members and their fellow members, and between members and their employers
• To afford advice and assistance to individual members on professional matters
• To promote the interests of education and to support the concept of equal access to full education for all children, and to strive for the raising of educational standards
• To afford to the authorities responsible for the administration of education the collective advice and experience of the members
• To cultivate a spirit of fraternal co-operation with kindred organisations in this and other countries, to develop and maintain close links with retired members in Northern Ireland and the Retired Teachers' Association of Ireland (RTAI), and to build on and develop existing links with trade union bodies
• To establish and administer a Fund or Funds for the purpose of providing assistance to members and their dependents in accordance with the rules
• To encourage the promotion and development of Comhar Linn INTO Credit Union and other services and facilities of benefit to members
• To provide, either directly or indirectly, benefits and facilities for members; to procure either solely or with others, a building society or to promote the development of a building society for the purpose of providing mortgage and investment facilities for members
• To promote the principle of equality in all aspects of education and the teaching profession
General Secretaries
- 1913: Eamonn MansfieldEamonn MansfieldEamonn Mansfield was an Irish schoolteacher and public servant, and briefly a member of the Free State Seanad....
- 1916: T. J. O'Connell
- 1948: D. J. Kelleher
- 1960s: Sean Brosnahan
- 1978: Gerry QuigleyGerry QuigleyGerry Quigley was a trade unionist and political activist in Northern Ireland.Quigley grew up in the Donegall Pass area of Belfast. He studied at St Joseph's Training College before working as a primary school teacher.Quigley was appointed Northern Secretary of the Irish National Teachers'...
- 1990: Joe O'TooleJoe O'TooleJoseph John "Joe" O'Toole is a former Irish independent politician, who was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1987 to 2011.He was born and brought up in Dingle, County Kerry, O'Toole was a teacher for ten years and then a school principal in County Dublin...
- 2001: John Carr
- 2009 - : Sheila NunanSheila NunanSheila Nunan is General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation. She has been a member of the executive of the INTO since 1995 and was INTO President in 2005-2006....