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15th October 2018
11:39am BST

The head of the Teachers' Union of Ireland has said that the six-figure sum that top principals are paid here is fair for the work they do.
"That only applies to an extremely small amount of very large schools and the workload as principal of that is just extraordinary, probably working five nights a week," he told The Irish Examiner.
"A lot of principals jobs becoming vacant have to be advertised two or three times to attract applicants to them because of the workload is quite extraordinary for all schools, particularly for larger schools."
The report also showed that there's a big gap between what teachers in Ireland start out on and their potential earnings.
A teacher's salary can jump by 89 per cent throughout their career, it was found.Explore more on these topics: