If Loreto College, Cavan can seal a first All-Ireland post primary schools senior Ladies Football title tomorrow against Loreto, Clonmel it will mark an extraordinary turnaround in fortunes.

Five schools and a college being built by a partnership involving the collapsed UK construction firm Carillion should be open by September.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has conceded it will take “a couple of weeks” to resolve the fallout from the collapse of the Carillion construction company, and is causing a knock-on impact on six schools in Ireland.

The Taoiseach says ensuring new schools open despite the collapse of the building company involved is a government priority.

It was a Munster one-two at the 54th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, with Simon Meehan from Coláiste Choilm in Ballincollig, Cork, scooping the top prize, and a group from St Brendan’s College in Killarney taking the group award.

Students and teachers have rejected exam officials’ suggestions that time was not a problem in this year’s Junior Certificate paper in English.

Eight of the very best Leaving Certificate grades would be the pinnacle of any young person’s achievement, but it doesn’t beat an All-Ireland camogie medal for one Limerick student.

Dublin schools have cleaned up with seven out of 13 students receiving eight H1's in today's Leaving Cert results.

Two Cork teens have claimed the scalp of the British school that boasts 19 former UK prime ministers by talking their way to a prestigious debating title.

Does the idea of being away from your phone give you the heebie jeebies?

Jessica O’Shea hit a few high notes as she screamed with joy after getting eight higher level A1s.

The double dreams of Loreto College, Kilkenny were dashed by a second half rally from St Brigid’s of Loughrea, who left MacDonagh Park in Nenagh yesterday as the O’Neills All-Ireland post primary senior A camogie champions.

Younger people are more influenced by social media, their parents should be aware.

David Glynn was the top Leaving Certificate student of 2015 — with an amazing nine higher-level A1s.

Overlooking his daughter’s coffin, Olivia Burke’s father Paul showed signs of despair when he said it was the third time he had spoken at a funeral in recent years, writes Ed Carty.

The young people slipped silently into the church and wrote long tributes to their deceased friends.

A teenager died in hospital in Dublin after allegedly taking ecstasy while on a night out with friends.

Young Wonder credit the internet for ensuring they can remain in Cork, writes Ed Power

Students at home and abroad are among dozens of groups who are close to setting a record for the longest conversation in Irish.

Ireland’s sensational golfing twins, Lisa and Leona Maguire, are heading Stateside after top results in the Leaving Certificate.

CLAUDIA CARROLL is a born storyteller, whether on stage or screen, as a novelist or in person with anecdotes of pals’ romantic entanglements and stories of love gone awry.

A schoolteacher in Loreto College, Foxrock, Co Dublin, has been directed by a judge to pay €50,000 damages to a Dunlaoghaire jeweller he made defamatory remarks about.

An Army Bomb Disposal Team has this evening made safe a quantity of unstable chemical at a secondary school in North Dublin.

WE all know that behind every great man there is a great woman, but who is behind all the great women?

Budding journalists of the future were honoured yesterday at the inaugural awards ceremony for an educational project devised by the National Newspapers of Ireland.

Most of the €96m in State funding given to 56 private schools in 2011-12 was spent on teacher salaries, writes political correspondent Mary Regan

A hard-hitting student video showing the dangers of cyber-bullying is to become part a national programme that aims to keep kids safe online.

Ballincollig students made a film on Myrtleville beach as part of the Creative Engagement programme for secondary schools, writes Colette Sheridan

JUST as the best ideas are sometimes the simplest, the most complicated can also have their uses as proven by the winners of the 48th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

A DUBLIN actress is about to take her first steps in the shadow of screen and stage legends such as Richard Harris and Donald Sutherland.

Muriel Bolger

THE best wine was left until last at yesterday’s well-attended Cork meeting when 17-year-old Jane Mangan partnered her first winner on the racetrack aboard her trainer father Jimmy’s Jamie’s Darling in the Cork & Waterford Mares’ Point-To-Point Flat Race.

Gonzaga College in Ranelagh in Dublin has been listed as Ireland's top school for progression to university, according to the Sunday Times' Parent Power Survey.

SIX of the top 10 schools in the country, as judged by university progression rates, are fee-paying, while the other four are Irish-speaking.

IN what Cork fans will be hoping is not a portent of things to come in Sunday’s All-Ireland Football semi-final clash, Dublin has beaten Cork to the title of the top student in the country.

Best friends Gabrielle O'Donoghue and Roisin Ryan plan to celebrate in style after both got eight A1s and two other friends achieved the maximum 600 points as Leaving Cert results were announced today.

FOR nine students who received their Junior Certificate results yesterday there were 12 reasons to celebrate – top marks in every subject.

CHILDREN at a 100-year-old Limerick school are looking forward to the end of queuing in the cold and rain just to use the toilet after being given good news about their new building — for the second time in a year.

A MAN in his 70s was arrested yesterday by gardaí investigating a fatal accident that claimed the life of a 19-year-old trainee hairdresser.

THE first of the supplementary rounds of the TCH All-Ireland Schools Quiz took place last night at the Montrose Hotel, Dublin.

Children’s education is being short-changed because of under-resourcing at secondary level, one of the state’s largest teaching unions said today.

THE KitKat Irish Schools team will be back in action at the SIAB Schools’ International in Newport, Wales on Saturday.

LEAVING Certificate students may be spared some stress in future after the Education Minister yesterday said she would seriously consider changes to exam timetables.

COMPLAINTS were few enough from Leaving Certificate students who sat the second Irish papers in Killarney yesterday.

LORETO COLLEGE, Cavan will represent Ireland in Interlaken, Switzerland at the 17th Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Company of the Year Competition running today until Saturday.

The local community has quietly supported the families of the Navan bus crash victims over the last year, the Bishop of Meath said tonight.

Parents who camped for three days outside an all-girls secondary school can finally begin enrolling their children this morning.