R P O’Donnell on why punctuation is no ‘laughing matter

Is childhood a thing of the past? Seems so, when the Children’s Rights Alliance is in favour of the Government’s decision to set the so-called digital age of consent at “the lowest age possible” which in this case is 13 years.

Next year’s new pan-European data laws could be exploited to rewrite and eradicate history. Allan Prosser argues that we are sleepwalking into an era where digital records will be rewritten, disguised, and removed to protect reputation and vested interests and that, in the post-newspaper world, no one may notice the difference.

The mass return to school is under way across Ireland and, once again, the question is posed by many with dogs in the great educational fight: Are the country’s schools equipping their pupils for life in the digital age?

Should children be left to their own electronic devices in the classroom? No, says Tom Butler, who argues against the myth that the wholesale application of computers is beneficial to students