Tensions were high yesterday as upwards of 55,000 students nationwide awaited their Leaving Certificate results. And it was no different for the 170 girls who queued from 8.30am in Christ the King Secondary School in Cork.

An Army Bomb Disposal Team made safe a quantity of the unstable chemical Dinitrophenylhydrazine this evening in Douglas, Cork.

SHE may be playing a dead pirate but her special talents have helped breathe life into a swashbuckling Christmas pantomime.

NON FEE-PAYING schools provide equally high numbers of undergraduates to two of the country’s leading universities as fee-paying ones, figures show.