Most of the €96m in State funding given to 56 private schools in 2011-12 was spent on teacher salaries, writes political correspondent Mary Regan

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CENTRE Rory O’Loughlin and replacement wing David Busby finished off well-worked moves for the Ireland Schools to outgun the Ireland Clubs in this Age-Grade International at Merrion Road yesterday.

LITTLE Laura McDowell loves her jigsaws, her books, her toy kitchen and her aunt who gave her the gift of life.

A teenage girl missed a vital liver transplant in London because of a lack of leadership and an unreliable system for arranging rapid air ambulance transport, a health watchdog has found.

An inquiry has been ordered after a teenage girl missed out on a vital liver transplant in London because no aircraft could be sourced.

CALEB POWELL has been installed as the 123rd president of the Irish Rugby Football Union.

LAST year, Ciara Mageean (Assumption, Ballinahinch) took her career to a new level when she broke Sonia O’Sullivan’s long standing national junior 800m record at the Irish schools track and field championships.

LACK of game time may be a concern for Ireland U19 coach Allen Clarke but the former Irish international still looks forward to a quality performance from his side in tonight’s clash with the Australian Schools U19s at Cork Institute of Technology’s ground (7.30pm).

THE Irish will be well represented in X Factor this year with Dublin twins John and Edward making the final 12 along with model Azi Jegbefume.

GARDAÍ believe vandals were behind the destruction of six valuable sculling boats at the National Rowing Centre in Cork.

Jordi Murphy’s Leinster Schools caned their Ulster counterparts for four tries in the Schools (Under-18) Inter-provincial Championship at Donnybrook today.

CENTRE Declan Hayes supplied two breakaway tries to send Cistercian College Roscrea to a 19-5 win over Pres Bray and into the Leinster Schools Section B Fr Godfrey Cup final at Naas yesterday.

STEPHEN SCULLION (Wellington College) and Sarah Treacy (King’s Hospital), the newly crowned national junior cross-country champions, bid for more success in the Kit Kat All-Ireland Schools Championships at St Clare’s Sports Ground, DCU, this afternoon.

A FAMILY got a New Year wish a day in advance as a little Irish baby arrived home from a London hospital after a life-saving operation that also made history.

The draws for the Leinster Schools Senior and Junior Cup competitions have been made in Lansdowne FC tonight.

AMY FOSTER (Glenlola Collegiate School), silver medallist in the 100m at the European Youth Olympics last week, will be back in action at Tullamore on Saturday and hoping for a double in the Schools International between Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.

BRENDAN O’NEILL (St. Michael’s, Dublin), Mairead Murphy (Mercy, Waterford) and Laura Reynolds (Marian, Mohill) all set new records at the KitKat Tailteann Irish Schools interpros at Tullamore on Saturday when a number of athletes bound for the European Youth Olympic Festival got the perfect send-off.

I WISH to protest about the difficulty of getting to my secondary school, the King’s Hospital in Palmerstown, Dublin, because of the heavily congested M50.

BLACKROCK College, on the trail of a 64th Leinster Schools Senior Cup title, booked their place in the semi-finals at Donnybrook yesterday.

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There has been a change of venue for Newbridge College v High School on Monday.

The Irish Schools Selectors have selected the following teams to play against Ireland U19 XV and Irish Youth XV on Monday, December 29 at Terenure RFC.

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