The Department of Education was overcharged by a total of more than €40,000 by two private partner companies for the running of major colleges.

Former Test captain Keith Wood was one of the four-man panel interviewing candidates for the vacant Ireland head coach post.

The show of strength by the Real IRA (RIRA) at the funeral of terror boss Alan Ryan has been condemned as "reprehensible" today by Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

A volley of shots were fired over the coffin of murdered Real IRA boss Alan Ryan as he was given a full republican military funeral today.

As a child, I had a very mature singing voice, but I thought everybody sang like me.

Forget The X Factor and The Voice.

MEET the country’s next popstars who have signed up for classes in Ireland’s very own school of rock.

A MAGNIFICENT 200-year-old violin made by one of the 19th century’s greatest craftsmen will be presented to the winner of a prestigious music competition.

HANDEL’S Water Music should have been the soundtrack for the spectacular launch yesterday of a college’s annual celebration of music, art and culture.

THE Assembly Rooms, the Theatre Royal, the Athenium — all part of Cork’s musical folk memory and now, the focus of a remarkable thesis on the musical life of Cork from the middle of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th.

MUSIC classes for junior students at the flagship Cork School of Music have been saved — for this year at least.

FUNDING cutbacks at the flagship Cork School of Music (CSM) next year will be miniscule, it was confirmed last night.

TWO schools. Two protests. Another day of anger at government cutbacks.

PRIMARY and second-level children attending part-time music classes at Cork School of Music have staged a protest, along with their parents, outside the school.

PARENTS of children attending the Cork School of Music (CSM) have called on college bosses to come clean about cutbacks and their impact on the landmark institution.

The Dublin stock exchange has seen its stock fall this morning.

Kerry Group has bought the QA Products unit from Dutch food group CSM for an undisclosed sum.

IT seemed like an impossible dream for many years but Cork School of Music is ready to open the doors to a new €60 million future.

CONSTRUCTION work on the €60 million Cork School of Music is to begin immediately after the contract with the Government’s private partners on the deal was agreed yesterday.

A new form of hunting which allows participants to shoot wild boar and antelope by a simple click of the mouse is stirring up great controversy in the United States.

CORK School of Music looks almost certain to get its new building after a European decision cleared the biggest obstacle to Government funding yesterday.

THOUSANDS of students at Cork School of Music (CSM) could be without lessons this month as staff prepare to issue notice of industrial action to college authorities.

Women who use a certain type of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are twice as likely to develop breast cancer as those who do not use any form of HRT at all, research showed today.

The High Court in Britain was today giving its ruling on whether the British government was negligent in not issuing a speedier warning over a connection between aspirin and a neurological condition which left a child severely brain damaged.