It’s not all screen time with the nation’s youth as new figures show children are also the biggest users of the country’s public libraries.

Dublin GAA chief executive John Costello may be one of the few remaining pulpit-pounding county secretaries who believe annual reports can still have a state-of-the-nation edge to them. An opportunity to set the record straight, to right a few wrongs, to take down a sacred cow or two. 

Funding for payments to authors and illustrators whose books were borrowed from public libraries in the Republic was cut by a third last year.

THANK you students, please sit down. It’s an honour to address the class of 2010. I know you guys are busy cramming ahead of the Leaving Cert’s commencement in a few short days.

Entertainment group Chorion today said it was planning to buy the business behind the Mr Men for £28m (€41m).

CHILDREN’S favourites, the Mr Men, are being revived with the creation of six new characters, it was revealed yesterday.

Children’s favourites the Mr Men are being revived with the creation of six new characters, it was revealed today.