A Youthreach manager spared jail because he admitted to stealing €40,000 is believed to have defrauded his centre of at least five times that amount.

THE opportunity to create a greater choice of schools for parents was lost during the boom, a Catholic education leader has claimed.

A DUBLIN primary school to open next year, operated by a Vocational Education Committee (VEC), could mark the first significant step in altering the Catholic church’s domination of primary education.