Election candidate Deirdre Clune recently visited a school where pupils are taught to elect a council. The Cork MEP says she’s learned a lot about politics in recent years too, writes Catherine Shanahan

With Rosalia Long’s Zumba moves triggering positive feelings left, right and centre, Beaumont Girls National School was as good a place as any to re-energise for the final week of European Elections campaigning.

The summer is here and the pupils of Beaumont Girls N.S. are enjoying the first scents of their new sensory garden.

In an age when technology reigns, shared classes between children on different sides of the planet are nothing new, but when they journey into space simultaneously that’s a whole new frontier.