Talks are set to resume today in the long running supervision and substitution dispute between the ASTI, the Department of Education and school managers, writes Emmet Oliver.
The ASTI's standing committee last week rejected interpretations by school managers and the Department of Education in relation to the supervision and substitution scheme.
The union instructed ASTI members to defer the implementation of the scheme until various issues were clarified. Sources said the issues dividing the parties were "minor and technical" and it should be possible to resolve them.
There is also little chance of disruption to schools. The spokesman for the Joint Managerial Body, Mr George O'Callaghan, said non-teachers would provide the service in the short term and schools would be kept open.
Woman arrested on air rage charge
A 32-year old Co Limerick woman is to appear at Killaloe District Court today over an alleged air rage incident on an Aer Lingus transatlantic flight yesterday.
The woman - who has lived in California for the past number of years - was yesterday released on her own bail by Shannon gardaí after being charged with disorderly behaviour on the New York-Shannon flight.
According to a spokesman at Shannon Garda Station, the woman became disruptive shortly after the flight took off from New York.
The Garda spokesman said that it is alleged that the woman had consumed a lot of alcohol.
Missing student turns up in Dublin
A 19-year-old English student missing since last Tuesday turned up in Dublin on Saturday safe and well.
Ms Vicky Stephenson went missing from Manchester Metropolitan University last Tuesday after going to interview homeless people for a college project.
Family and friends joined police is searching for her last week.
However, according to a spokeswoman for the gardaí, she walked into a Garda station in Dublin city centre on Saturday morning and identified herself.
Her parents and members of Manchester police were travelling to Dublin yesterday to talk to her.
Robinson to give public lecture
The former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Mary Robinson, will deliver a public lecture on the ethical implications of globalisation in St Patrick's College, Drumcondra tonight.
The talk is the first in the second biennial Seamus Heaney Lecture Series, which is aimed at promoting greater public awareness on key issues of social and educational importance. This year's lecture series is on the theme of Perspectives on Equality.
Gardai looking for missing woman
Gardaí are trying to trace Ms Mary O'Reilly (78), from Belturbet, Co Cavan, who has been missing from home since Saturday.
Ms O'Reilly is 5 feet 3 inches and of slight build. She has dark permed hair and may be wearing glasses. When last seen she was wearing a rust coloured anorak.