Ireland is still the number one destination of choice for international English Language students.

Four Junior Certificate students have appeared before an Oireachtas committee, after submitting a petition on adding 30 extra minutes to the English exam.

The English don’t get Halloween. While it’s the second spendiest holiday in America after Christmas — in 2014 Americans spent six billion dollars on pumpkin spiced latte and plastic spiders — in England it is still regarded with suspicion.

The first Junior Certificate results for English in a reformed junior cycle show some interesting trends in relation to participation and performance.

The final weeks in school for over 55,000 Leaving Certificate students with themes about school days and childhood memories on their English papers.

The landmark first examination of a revised junior cycle English course was deemed appropriate by teachers after it was taken by most of this year’s 62,000 Junior Certificate students.

Khalid Masood who killed four people during a terror rampage in London had made three trips to Saudi Arabia, the country's embassy in Britain confirmed.

You won’t be stuck for a translation, whether you’re taking a ‘féinín’ or heading for ‘réamhdheochanna’.

Words find themselves with new meanings all the time, but it’s the speed with which they are changing that Colm O’Regan has concerns with this week.

The Education Minister has ruled out intervening to stop some Junior Cert students losing 10% of their English grade.

The European Commission in Ireland has moved to calm concerns that English may no longer be an official language at the European Union after Brexit.

The Minister for Transport has said Ireland is probably in the worst position of any country, as a result of Britain's vote to leave the EU.

Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Durcan were the poets examined in a higher-level Leaving Certificate English paper lasting over three hours.

By the time the 2016 State examinations started yesterday morning, outside temperatures had already reached 20C in some parts of the country.

For over 60,000 students, Junior Certificate English was first on the cards at schools around the country yesterday.

Phone company Three have been criticised for suggesting that one of their users translate her name to English in order to use their online services.

Back in your school days, you probably studied English, maths and science.

British prime minister accused of ‘lazy’ stance on counter-extremism

How many different ways are there to speak English?

11 short questions based on the Leaving Cert Geography curriculum. Nothing to be afraid of…

Students who focused on John Montague and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin should have been pleased to see both feature on yesterday’s Leaving Certificate higher and ordinary level English exams.

'Maedhbh'... How hard can that be?

A Dublin supermarket chain has apologised for issuing a communication policy that told staff they must speak English at all times, including when on their breaks.

Those of us lucky enough to speak the two official languages are hardened to the mistakes of our bilingual signage.

Ireland welcomes foreign students who want to study English. The student visa gives us permission to work for 20 hours per week and we must have €3,000 in our bank account and have health insurance. Dublin is a great city. But as soon as I got here the dream was less than perfect.

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