Parents who apply for places at numerous second-level schools for their children are making admissions and planning almost impossible for schools, a principals’ leader has warned.

Half of all patients who are detained in the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) have been charged with, or convicted of, murder, writes Caroline O'Doherty.

One issue that may concern parents about proposals to govern school admissions by law is that waiting lists could no longer be used to determine who gets into a school. Some of the details involved are set out here.