DOZENS of children at a Mayo school are being monitored for any signs of swine flu after a seven-year-old became the latest person to contract the virus.

A THIRD of the country’s schools have an unreliable, slow broadband service which breaks down regularly and prevents pupils from using the internet effectively in class, according to a report to Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe.

TWELVE-year-old Rosalie Fleming doesn’t understand why the minister has taken her visiting teacher service away.

Sean Rowley, the new president of the Irish National Teachers Organisation, has been sworn in at the union's annual conference in Bundoran, Co Donegal.