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A SPECIAL needs school in Tallaght faces cuts of up to two-thirds in the number of its teachers and classroom assistants under the review of special needs assistants ordered by the Government.

Breandáin Ó Heineacháin, principal of St Joseph’s special school in Balrothery, said the school had been told that it would lose 66 per cent of its staff by the National Council for Special Needs.