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.

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

It’s a stressful time when the Leaving Cert results come out, and all too often it seems a change of plan is needed.

Councillor Padraig O’Sullivan has emerged as the victor at a Fianna Fáil selection convention to represent the party in the seat left vacant by Billy Kelleher TD in Cork North Central.

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”.

All parades take place on Sunday unless stated otherwise.

Mick Finn, Lord Mayor of Cork city, was born and raised on Friars Walk but has also lived intermittently in Athlone, Dublin and Sydney. He atttended Sullivan’s Quay, Deerpark CBS and UCC

The principal of a Co Cork secondary school has gone on leave amid ongoing tensions with the Education and Training Board (ETB) over unfinished building work following the liquidation of the Sammon Contracting Group.

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

The groundbreaking Diarmuid Gavin-backed Field of Dreams project for young adults with Down Syndrome is poised to become a reality.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Department of Education has confirmed that it will co-fund a further four music education projects that were initiated with a €7m philanthropic donation by U2 and The Ireland Funds.

Parents in an East Cork community are to be asked, for the second time in two years, for their preferred patron for a new primary school

Assurances are being made that the use of a former office building as a gaelcholáiste in a Co Cork town will only be a temporary measure.

The board of the former Cork County VEC received nearly six times more in payments and expenses than its city counterparts in the five years prior to the amalgamation of the two organisations, correspondence to the Public Account Committee has revealed.

A temporary home has been found for a new Gaelcholáiste before its pupils move into a three-school €19m campus in a Cork suburb.

With children back at school and colleges reopening in the coming weeks, the options for parents or other adults to consider furthering their education are being showcased in Cork over the next two days.

It was a champagne day for the people of a north Cork town in more ways than one.

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has confirmed it plans to lodge a planning application within weeks for three new schools in Carrigaline as part of a €19m investment in a new education campus.

A two-year investigation into the financial affairs of the County Cork VEC has been completed and is to be published next month.

World champion walker Rob Heffernan has been celebrated in his home town for defying the odds and beating the Russians in their own backyard.

The news that Munster’s first Educate Together second-level school is to open in Co Cork has been welcomed locally.

The growing town of Carrigaline is to have two additional second-level schools from 2016.

Parents living in a satellite town in Cork will breathe a sigh of relief as their local community school is set for significant expansion.

The Department of Education is considering applications from eight prospective patrons for control of a dozen new schools to be opened in the next three years.

More than eight decades of education provision ends today when 33 city and county vocational education committees (VECs) are consigned to history.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn have said Mr Gilmore’s wife was treated the same as other senior education figures when given a job at the Department of Education.

The head of City of Cork Vocational Education Committee says he looks forward to continuing in the role after changes to a planned reshuffle of VEC chiefs nationally.

The wife of Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is to become a policy specialist for his Labour Party colleague Ruairí Quinn as part of redeployment arrangements for vocational education committee (VEC) chiefs.