Indications from polling stations last night suggested that a record number of people cast their vote in yesterday’s referenda on marriage equality and lowering the age of eligibility to run for the presidency.

LONG-TIME sweethearts, Ann McCarthy and Jim Kennedy, had no sooner said “I do” and signed the parish register yesterday than they were off to the community centre to make their mark once more.

IT is unconscionable that a unit for autistic children should be facing a threat of closure because of the failure to sanction a permanent teaching post.

A UNIT for autistic children is in danger of closing just six months after it opened because the Department of Education has failed to sanction a permanent teaching post.