The Department of Education’s decision not have history as a mandatory subject in the Junior Cert still raises concerns that many students may not then study it in the Leaving Cert, and so as citizens may have big gaps in knowledge of our country’s past and its impact on today.

Two significant anniversaries in humanity’s visceral but never-ending struggle for justice, recognition and equality fall this week.

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Trade union movements will commemorate the 1913 Dublin lock-out today in a re-enactment of the infamous baton charge that took place in the city centre.

NINETY years ago this morning, about 200 tram drivers in Dublin stopped work. They abandoned their trams in a demand for union recognition.