‘I’ve been four or five weeks driving up from Mayo, a four-hour journey, doing viewings for places with no luck at all’The Teachers’ Union of Ireland warned this week that schools are facing an 'alarming' struggle to hire teachers before the new term because of the cost-of-living crisis, 'particularly in relation to accommodation and transport' in urban areasDarren Timlin , from Rossport, Belmullet, Co Mayo, is a secondary school teacher working in Greystones, Co Wicklow, but...
“I’ve found it absolutely impossible to find a place,” he says. “I’ve been four or five weeks driving up from Mayo, a four-hour journey, doing viewings for places, with no luck at all.”Fortunately, he has relations in Lucan with whom he can stay until he finds accommodation. “It’s about an hour and a half in the morning with traffic,” he says, “but it will keep me ticking over for a week or two.
Mr Timlin said: “The starting wage for a teacher after tax is about €2,100 per month, and if you’re forking out €800-€850 for rent and then bills on top of that and you’re paying for your car and your diesel, and your fuel costs, that’s about half your wage gone before you even start buying food.” A lot of his classmates from college have gone to Spain and Dubai to teach. “They’re living there rent-free, they’re getting their dinners on board, they’re getting paid a fortune, and they have the time of their lives.”
Where’s this shite going. EVERYONE is struggling with the rental market and the property market EVERYONE! Because of the government !
I hope its cozy because you gonna be there for a long time fella.
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