A ’number of Irish’ are among five killed in a US balcony collapse; Liquidators at Clerys in Dublin have told laid-off workers there are no funds to pay redundancies; and primary education is not free, but would be for an extra €103m a year, says Fergus Finlay. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

ENGLAND: Children should be encouraged to read from their cereal boxes at breakfast time, the headmaster of Eton has said.

While the notion of being a lady or a gentleman can seem more Downton Abbey than 2015 Ireland, Caroline Allen says that good manners are the true mark of character and are sadly rare

Parents do their children a "disservice" by not exposing them to risk, TV adventurer Bear Grylls has said.

The elites in British life are increasingly drawn from a class privileged by the school their parents sent them to, while the prospect of social mobility for the poorer in society decreases steadily, writes Jill Lawless.

In the midst of his company’s hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch headed to his London apartment and emerged with the News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks on his arm. Asked by a reporter about his priorities, Murdoch answered: “This one,” gesturing with his thumb to Brooks.

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Holywood golfer’s assertion last September that he felt more British than Irish was met with a consternation that bordered on the ridiculous.

David Beckham has been spotted visiting another private school in London, fuelling rumours that the Beckhams are planning a return to the UK.

The legendary Fergie Sutherland, best known as the trainer of the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Imperial Call, died yesterday in Marymount Hospice, Cork following a long illness. He was 81.

Prince Harry is the loose cannon of the royal family whose antics have regularly made headlines.

Ten construction workers plunged 25 storeys to their death today after a platform lift collapsed at a building site in the Philippine capital, officials said.

THIS COLUMN doesn’t share that much with William Goldman, the acclaimed screenwriter responsible for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men and the Princess Bride.

THE heir to Kenya’s most famous white settler family was acquitted yesterday of murdering a local poacher, but found guilty of manslaughter in a case highlighting the east African nation’s delicate colonial legacy.

NOW that feeder school league tables are again upon us, it might be timely to reflect on the call made earlier this year by the heads of two of England’s leading independent schools, Eton and St Paul’s, for an end to the “tyranny” of league tables.

THE recent call by the heads of two of England’s leading independent schools — Eton and St Paul’s — for an end to the “tyranny” of league tables is timely.

TODAY millions of British people will vote in local elections while Londoners will be selecting a Lord Mayor for a new term of office.

BRENT HOBERMAN may not be a name everybody instantly puts a face alongside, but it once was. Brent is one half of the couple who invented lastminute.com. They started their business with virtually no capital in a premises so small that cat-swinging was never an option for them.

Allies of deposed Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared victory in country’s first post-coup election today, but failed to secure an absolute majority in the parliament according to unofficial results from the Election Commission.

A party set up by people loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is on course to win Thailand’s election today.

SPORTING excellence can be found in the most unlikely of places but few can be as incongruous as a soulless industrial estate on the outskirts of High Wycombe, a town in South Buckinghamshire 30 miles west-north-west of London.

The creator of stick-man cartoon character Purple Ronnie has bagged a deal worth up to £4.8m (€7m) after selling the rights to the brand.

A SACKED Eton College art teacher who secretly taped Britain’s Prince Harry in an attempt to save her job won her case for unfair dismissal yesterday.

PRINCE WILLIAM and Tom Parker Bowles will act as witnesses to the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, it emerged yesterday.

BRITAIN’S Prince Harry’s playboy image was under fresh scrutiny last night after an early morning fracas outside a nightclub which left a paparazzi photographer with a cut lip.

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