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THE PHYSICAL infrastructure of many of Ireland’s schools should be a cause for national shame, Lord David Puttnam, the Open University chancellor and a British Labour Party peer, has said.

Lord Puttnam, who lives in Skibbereen, Co Cork, said students and teachers perform better in best built environments and that choices were made here during the boom years to spend money on less worthy projects.