A number of girls in a southside Cork City primary school have been questioned by gardaí after a girl was threatened with a knife via a Facebook page.

Three families, nine children and just one day missed at school between them across more than a century worth of classes — and counting.

A secondary school is refusing to comment on whether it has taken any further disciplinary action since suspending three schoolgirls following an organised fight which was posted on the internet.

The National Parents’ Council has commended the swift action of a school authority in disciplining girls involved in a fight which was recorded and posted on the internet.

The final instalment in the exam diary of Jess MacSweeney, a Leaving Cert student from Cork

OK, so when did my little brother become a teenager?

Morning all!

MYSTERIES and fairytales featured strongly among the Leaving Certificate essay titles chosen by students at a Cork school where the exams started without much panic.

SCHOOL pals of Aoife Downey have been comforting each other ahead of this evening’s removal for the 15-year-old killed in the tragic weekend sledding accident.

TRIBUTES poured in last night for teenager Aoife Downey who was killed in a tragic sledging accident in Cork at the weekend.

SIX Cork students are in the running for the title of Ireland’s top young volunteer.

A SCHOOLGIRL’S inspirational homework assignment is about to land on the desk of the most powerful man on the planet.

SENIOR second-level students have been recruited as frontline soldiers in the war against the tobacco industry.

THERE was no foregone conclusion in the early stages of last night’s TCH All-Ireland Schools Quiz at the Imperial Hotel, Cork.