Controversy abounded after a last-ditch Kilkenny College try staved off a Catholic University School comeback in the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup quarter-final.

IN HIS address at the Cork Chamber Business Breakfast on December 20, the President of University College, Cork, Dr Michael Murphy stated that “there is extensive anecdotal evidence of many of our brightest students emigrating after completing Leaving Certificate for overseas education, and never returning”.

Parts of Dublin city centre have re-opened after an Army Bomb Disposal Team made safe a quantity of unstable Picric Acid uncovered in a school science lab.

FROM an early age, Conor O’Brien just loved to sketch — any time, any place, anywhere.

Pupils from schools across Ireland have shown themselves to be top of the class by winning an international debating competition.