Dozens of students will be without a secondary school place next year due to a chronic shortage of schools in East Cork, a group of concerned parents has claimed.

Friends of tragic Kimberly O’Connor spent the afternoon at their school which opened during the mid-term break to provide a safe space for them to comfort each other as they try to come to terms with the horror car crash which claimed her life.

Amy Hughes has taken on a new role as sales manager with Envisage Cloud. Plus a selection of other people beginning new roles with companies in Ireland.

Ireland’s new apprentices are not just heading to building sites, but to well-paid jobs in sectors such as biopharma, finance, auctioneering, ICT, and logistics.

An investigation by the Cork Education and Training Board is continuing into whether there were financial irregularities at a school.

Wheelchair users are set to experience the thrill of high-speed boat rides thanks to the delivery of new ‘inclusion powerboat’ on the south coast.

Planning for a new three-school campus in a rapidly expanding Co Cork town is to be submitted for the third time following a series of rejected applications.

Five young pupils in Coláiste Mhuire in Buttevant have scooped the first Rotary Young Citizen Peacemaker Award for their work tackling difficulties affecting fellow students.

Denis Leamy is the new chief executive of the Cork Education and Training Board (CETB), Lavitt’s Quay, Cork.

A vermin infestation, broken showers, a leaking roof, and unsecured ceiling fittings are just some of the alleged problems with a Cork sports hall, leading to claims that Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa (CSN) students are being treated like “second-class citizens”.

Ted Owens, chair of new Cork GAA fundraising body Cairde Chorcaí, says the organisation will work with the Cork County Board to help with team costs that are becoming “unsustainable”.

Gardaí have been notified about graffiti in a Co Cork school’s boys toilets that invited people to pick a female student to be raped.

A NUMBER of €1m plus-properties, in Cork, Dublin and Wexford, are to feature in the wide-ranging, three-day Bid X1 auction later this month. In all, some 360 commercial and residential lots are expected to yield in excess of €60m for the auction house.

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has apologised for a data security breach which affected a handful of staff.

The benefits of hosting an international learning conference next month should go far beyond the immediate €1m boost to Cork’s local economy, according to its organisers.

A teacher who set up a company to sell computers and other equipment to the college where he had control of technology purchases is to be made its deputy principal.

A competition to manage a new primary school in the Cork town of Ballincollig has opened with an invitation for prospective patrons to apply.

School buildings for almost 1,300 children from pre-school to Leaving Certificate are to begin construction next year in the Cork town of Carrigaline.

Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone said she has great faith in the management at Oberstown youth detention campus despite four teenage boys bringing legal challenges over being kept in solitary confinement following at riot at the site.

There were nerves for everybody as 45 students and more than a dozen teachers had their first day in a new Cork second-level school yesterday morning.

Submissions have been made in relation to the proposed Albert Quay office development, for which Owen O’Callaghan has sought permission in Cork’s south docklands.

A battle for the patronage of a primary school planned for one of Cork’s largest towns has kicked off.

A new mental health initiative aimed at secondary school students is being hailed by psychologists as the best piece of experiential learning “in years”.

Cork city has been awarded a Purple Flag for its night-time offerings.

It was a proud day on Wednesday for parents of thousands of Junior Certificate students — but a father in Cork Prison was celebrating his own results as well as his daughter’s.

A secular schools body lost its legal battle Friday to become patron of a new Cork primary school.

Parents have been assured that a new primary school will open in a town in east Cork this autumn despite a legal challenge over who should run it.

The High Court has reserved judgment in an action brought by a secular schools body over a decision that an education and training board should run a new primary school due to open in Cork next September.

The head of a Cork educational authority has insisted that both funding for teachers’ salaries and the body’s capital expenditure were not cut as a result of legal settlements it paid out over a number of years.

A secular schools body has brought a legal challenge over a decision that an education and training board should run a new primary school due to open in Co Cork next September.

The chairman of the Oireachtas’s public spending watchdog has criticised the prior management of County Cork’s vocational education and asked why board members of the time remain in their positions today.

Government education policies risk leaving marginalised adults behind because of an over-emphasis on economic benefits, a network representing some 100 community groups has claimed.

A new greenway and a woodland recreational area are among a range of ambitious new amenity, cultural, and tourism projects being pursued by a dynamic new lobby group launched in north Cork.

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has introduced a whistleblower policy to help prevent a repeat of financial irregularities which rocked the education body it succeeded.

A Co Cork educational centre for early school leavers made inappropriate payments to staff and students, an audit by the State’s spending watchdog found.

The rising problem of regional homelessness will be the focus of a major one-day conference in Cork today.

The major extension proposed for the Bon Secours Hospital, in Cork City, has been approved by An Bord Pleanála.

It is a reworking of an old maths lesson: Remember how ‘three into one won’t go’? Well, it might be time for some revision on that equation.

Cork City Council is to decide by the end of this week whether or not to permit office use at a quayside, outdoors shop to allow an educational authority to expand its offices.