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SCHOOLS:MANY SCHOOLS are expected to reopen today after Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe reversed an earlier decision to keep schools closed for the first three days of the week because of the cold snap.

The Minister’s volte face was welcomed by primary school managers but slated by Fine Gael as a “humiliating climbdown”.