Oireachtas na Samhna will draw thousands of people to Co Kerry this weekend for the Gaelic social event of the year, writes Pet O’Connell.

Kevin Roche’s first job was at a piggery in Co Cork. He’s since gone on to design iconic buildings in the USA and Ireland, and at 95 has no plans to retire, writes Esther McCarthy

As a million tonnes of food is dumped here each year, FoodCloud collects surplus food from businesses and distributes it to local charities, writes Donal O’Keeffe.

The State wants the High Court to strike out a decision it can be sued, along with the Christian Brothers, by three alleged sexual abuse victims, following a European court ruling in the landmark Louise O’Keeffe case.

A wealthy benefactor has thrown a lifeline to an education centre for marginalised teenagers which is at risk of closure.

A voluntary centre which helps keep marginalised and vulnerable teenagers in education is facing closure over a funding crisis.

An American university has confirmed plans to develop an international $1m (€729,000) campus in Dingle, Co Kerry.

A 42-year-old man who was sexually abused by a Christian Brother over a five-year period starting when he was aged 8, has been awarded €370,000 by a High Court judge.

The past pupils of two Cork schools are joining forces to honour one of the country’s greatest education innovators.

RTÉ has denied claims by the family of another missionary featured in the Prime Time Investigates documentary Mission to Prey that the allegations it makes against their relative are incorrect, unsubstantiated, and prejudiced.

YOUNG Irish students have volunteered to help people in one of Africa’s poorest regions during their summer holidays.

The Christian Brothers has pledged €161m in cash and land to make amends to victims of clerical child abuse, it was revealed today.

ONE of the country’s largest religious orders has pledged to make more funds available to help former residents of its residential institutions who were abused while in care.

THERE’S a whole generation of male pensioners whose hands were scorched by Christian Brothers’ leathers 40 or more years ago.

I REFER to Gregóir de Buitléir’s letter (‘A Mon boy rallies to defence of Christian Brothers’, May 14) in response to Matt Cooper’s column (May 9) about the brothers at the ‘North Mon’ in Cork.

THE Christian Brothers yesterday announced its 206-year involvement in the education system will come to an end in September.

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin has intervened in the bitter row over the policy under which subjects are taught through Irish in a new school in Dingle, Co Kerry.

One of the reasons we have a silly season is because media decides we’re going to have it. They send the angry brigade on vacation. If Joe Duffy and Eamon Dunphy go on holiday, what are you left with? Complaints about the weather and a safety zone for Steve Staunton.

A KERRY father is extremely worried about the educational future of his Russian stepdaughter, who could be forced to attend a school where all subjects are taught through Irish.

NOT content with being the tourism and Gaelic football capital, Kerry could also boast about being top of the charts nationally in relation to arts funding.

THE same week the Christian Brothers ended two centuries of involvement in primary and secondary education, there was also the bizarre barring of three boys from an exam hall for having their hair cut too short.

THE provincial of the Christian Brothers’ St Mary’s (northern) province, Bro David Gibson, certainly had a point when he warned against the danger of innocent brothers being unjustly accused of abuses in industrial schools (Irish Examiner, May 23).

Victims of child abuse are due to deliver a letter of protest this morning to the commission inquiring into their experiences.

PRIMARY schools could and probably will be run in the future by Vocational Education Committees (VECs), the head of their umbrella organisation suggested yesterday.

A COLLEGE embroiled in controversy over alleged bullying and financial mismanagement has been given a clean bill of health by its own consultants.

THE leader of a victims support group yesterday described as “deeply offensive” remarks made by a Christian Brothers’ spokesman in relation to sexual abuse in industrial schools.

CLAIMS that people who were kept in State institutions as children are lying about being abused so they can get compensation are “deeply hurtful”, a former orphanage resident said yesterday.

VICTIM support groups bitterly clashed yesterday with the Christian Brothers after the religious order said claims of abuse in its institutions were exaggerated.

The Christian Brothers today clashed with an organisation representing victims of sex abuse after denying the practice had been so widespread as claimed.

THE Canadian government did not sign any special deal with the Catholic Church to compensate people who had been sexually abused in religious institutions like the State has done here.