A new documentary looks at the degradation of deprived communities and what drug addicts have suffered because of stigma during the Celtic Tiger era. It’s about how many families buried so many of their children because of drug addiction, writes Ann Buckley. 

Caroline Grace-Cassidy

THE Department of Education must immediately introduce strict new guidelines to protect physical education (PE) teachers who have to enter changing rooms with students from “accusations of inappropriate behaviour”.

IRELAND’S Academy Award-winning animator has described the feeling of collecting his Oscar for visual effects on blockbuster film Avatar as “an incredibly surreal moment”.

President Mary McAleese has congratulated the Irish winner of an Oscar for best visual effects in screen blockbuster 'Avatar'.

An Academy award-winning animator today described the feeling of collecting his Oscar for visual effects on blockbuster film 'Avatar'.

Arts Minister Martin Cullen led tributes to animator Richard Baneham today after he won the Oscar for best visual effects on the blockbuster film 'Avatar'.