On  Newstalk Breakfast  the former Head of the HSE Tony O’Brien made a call to make facemasks mandatory in secondary schools from September.  Our reporter Elaine Smith took to the streets of Cork to hear where parents stand on the proposal and also we  heard from Kieran Christie, General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) .

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