New financial data shows one of the country's largest Education and Training Boards spent almost €2m in 2018 without full tenders being issued.

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

The opening of two primary schools in Cork and Dublin has been deferred by Education Minister Rúairí Quinn because there was not enough support for the patrons who applied to run them.