Denis Leamy is the new chief executive of the Cork Education and Training Board (CETB), Lavitt’s Quay, Cork.

“Oscar Romeo Four, India, Sierra Sierra, This is Echo India One, India Sierra Sierra. Over.”

“Oscar Romeo Four, India, Sierra Sierra, This is Echo India One, India Sierra Sierra. Over.”

Speaking about this exciting announcement for his school, Glanmire Community College Principal Ronan McCarthy said how proud they were to be chosen for this project.

Sunday is the new runday for the Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon as the 2017 race was launched.

The Naval Service yesterday pointed to an increasing number of third-level graduates entering the force as ordinary recruits.

Áilín Quinlan chats to one of the school teams designing and launching their own satellites for a Europe-wide high-tech space competition

Creative students have designed, built, and launched mini satellites from waste drink cans.

The winners of this year’s BT Young Scientist have achieved European success and will now present their project to a global audience in the US.

A Cork community is trying to comfort the family of a young woman whose life was tragically cut short when she drowned in West Cork on Tuesday night.

Glanmire Community College students Darren O’Sullivan, Conor Smiddy and Luke Morrissey share their thoughts on the Engineering paper this morning. 

A former straight-A Leaving Certificate student claims the education system brainwashes students into believing the exam is “the be all and end all”.

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One of the country’s largest voluntary first-aid organisations will perform CPR demos in Cork this weekend in a bid to encourage more people to learn the technique.

Camogie League Division 1 champions Cork were held to a draw after a magnificent clash with Tipperary at The Ragg.

Two gardaí, one who became a double world champion road bowler and the other who once guarded Lord Mountbatten, have been honoured by their communities following their retirements.

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

Sunday looked like the perfect day.

County Cork VEC spent almost €50,000 responding to reports that it had lost more than €100,000 due to mismanagement at a Youthreach centre.

Plans are well advanced to head off a looming crisis which could occur in a Cork City suburb if a major expansion is not carried out at a community college.

County Cork VEC has said it is prepared to make a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners for the second time in six years.

A judging panel in a schools’ science competition in east Cork has described the entries as “inspiring and innovative”.

County Cork VEC has voted to hire outside legal advisers to tell if any of its members or staff were defamed by news reports on waste and mismanagement in operations under its control.

The damning findings of an internal audit of a County Cork VEC Youthreach project were dealt with only briefly at yesterday’s meeting of the VEC, which lasted almost three hours.

The retired co-ordinator of Macroom Youthreach has appealed to the Public Accounts Committee to delay its probe of a damning audit into the centre he ran for four years.

The Cork County Vocational Education Committee (CCVEC) is acting as if it is unanswerable to the people who are funding it to the tune of almost €100m annually.

The man whose company was blamed for defaulting on a contract that left County Cork VEC with a €161,000 shortfall has said school authorities were responsible for the demise of the deal.

The Comptroller and Auditor General castigated County Cork VEC as well as Glanmire Community College for taking on a big risk in an emphatically one-sided deal.

Innovative software products which County Cork VEC invested €216,000 in, but signed away all rights to, were part of a package which subsequently attracted €400,000 in private sector capital.

The spark was lit during the summer of 2002, the weekend of Stephen Quigley’s wedding in Indianapolis.

SPARE a thought for a candidate who gets up a 6am six days a week to drive 310km to and from work who then has to trudge out into the night to knock on doors.

THE State spending watchdog has found Cork County VEC’s oversight of a costly and failed computer teaching programme at a Cork school was defective.

NEWLY released documents have shown the board of a Cork community college believed it was kept in the dark about a controversial contract which collapsed and exposed the school to a €162,000 debt.

THE head of a Vocational Education Committee (VEC) was fully backed by committee members yesterday after he revealed how it has lost €18,000 of public money on a school IT project and not €167,000 as was feared.

AN under-pressure County Cork VEC has called a special meeting to discuss the fallout from its loss of a substantial sum of money on a collapsed school computer deal.

THE chief executive of County Cork VEC has broken his silence on its loss of substantial sums in a school computers deal and confirmed the state’s spending watchdog was probing the issue.

REVELATIONS of a large debt heaped on County Cork VEC due to the collapse of a private computer company only came to light because of an anonymous tip-off to a powerful Dáil committee.

SPENDING procedures at County Cork VEC have provoked serious concerns in the Department of Education and a report on the matter is under review.

THE families of four sixth class pupils refused entry to a second-level school – just over the fence from their primary school – have appealed to have the decisions overturned.

THE importance of physical activity and sport as part of education was highlighted yesterday when 13 schools from around the country were presented with awards.

A CORK secondary school student diagnosed with TB was yesterday in a stable condition in hospital.

CRAIG Murphy (Douglas Community School) ended two years of frustration when winning the senior boys’ title at the KitKat Irish Schools Cross-Country Championships at Dartfield Equestrian Centre, Loughrea on Saturday.

NIALL TUOHY (Yeats College, Waterford) proved that December’s inter-county championship junior win wasn’t a flash in the pan when he outsprinted Craig Murphy (Douglas Community School) in a dramatic finish to the senior boy’s race at the KitKat Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships at Tramore Racecourse yesterday.