Department of Education Twitter Policy

The @Education_Ire account is operated and managed by the Department of Education Communications Unit staff.

If you follow @Education_Ire, you can expect tweets, photos and videos related to the department’s activities about:

• Ministerial engagements and departmental events
• press releases and media events
• speeches and statements
• new website content, such as circulars, reports and statistics
• education matters in the Houses of the Oireachtas
• other practical information on services available through the department and its agencies

Twitter accounts followed by, and content retweeted by, @Education_Ire does not imply any endorsement of tweets, organisations or individuals.

If you follow @Education_Ire, we will not automatically follow you. This is to help our followers identify other twitter accounts that we are following such as other state agencies and other departments.

@Education_Ire is an effective ‘broadcast’ tool to share information with people who are interested in education.

Unfortunately, we cannot provide replies or other feedback to our followers.

Sending a message via Twitter is not considered as contacting the department for official purposes. Such contact should be made through our business units, available on our website.

You can also email the department at: info@education.gov.ie

Please do not include personal/private information if you tweet @Education_Ire.

@Education_Ire operates during normal office hours from Monday to Friday, but may also operate outside of these hours on a discretionary basis.

Unfortunately, Twitter is not always available - this Twitter downtime is beyond the department’s control.