AN ANGRY Jason McAteer last night called on Dublin GAA star Stephen Cluxton to apologise for punching him in an incident that resulted in both players being sent off in a charity game on Sunday.

STAFF at a dozen schools for pupils with autism are being offered training to become primary teachers as part of a deal that will see the schools funded by the state.

TUTORS working at the country’s 13 applied behavioural analysis (ABA) schools will be allowed up to seven years to acquire formal teacher training as part of the Department of Education proposals to transform the schools’ structure.

THE Department of Education has written to the boards of management of 12 schools teaching children with autism offering to take over the long-term funding of their schools.

SOME of the country’s largest firms continued to show their charitable side this Christmas, despite the economic downturn.

IT STARTED as a bit of fun but Damien Hayes has revealed he’ll make much-needed money from his fearsome beard.