Parents and pupils of a Cork school last week reacted angrily after a local priest used his homily during a graduation Mass to back a no vote in the referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

Teenagers at a North Cork school brought children from Angola, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Austria to Cork City Hall to join pupils from 22 Irish second- level schools as part of the country’s largest model United Nations conference.

More than 100 secondary school students have began preparing for their national stage debut with the composer of Ireland’s first folk opera, which is set to be revived next month.

We could be looking at the next Jack Yeats, Francis Bacon, or Robert Ballagh if the quality of this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Compeition was anything to go by.

The winners of the 52nd BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition have been announced.

The death of a mother and daughter in a tragic car crash just three days before Christmas has numbed the north Cork areas of Kilworth and Fermoy.

A number of investigations are under way after 50 secondary school pupils had a “miracle” escape when their bus overturned in Co Cork yesterday morning.

Colm Cooper believes inter-county footballers and hurlers will retire earlier as the demands placed upon them increase.

Saoirse Lonergan from Conna, Co Cork has double reason to cheer — with 12 As in her Junior Certificate and looking forward to her 16th birthday tomorrow.

A transition year student has landed her first exhibition thanks to her uncanny sketch of broadcaster Ryan Tubridy.

Cork did exceptionally well in this year’s Leaving Certificate exams, with students from four schools achieving eight A1s.

The introduction of tablet computers and better management of which schoolbooks children carry may help provide solutions to the age-old problem of heavy schoolbags.

Most girls will feel a sense of dread on learning their darling brother has drawn a picture of them — and then delighted in showing it off in public.

As a relatively new school, Pobalscoil na Tríonóide in Youghal is still in the process of making a name for itself on the playing fields.

The collapse of building firms has delayed 20 major school and college projects over the past three years.

Former US President Bill Clinton has told scholarship award winners that he himself got his education thanks to a scholarship programme.

Dermot Bannon returns in a new series of Room to Improve tomorrow on RTÉ One.

If this was an All-Ireland, both Tipperary and Cork would each be celebrating three-in-a-row right now.

When it comes to word power, a school in Co Cork is really a force to be reckoned with.

JUST as the best ideas are sometimes the simplest, the most complicated can also have their uses as proven by the winners of the 48th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

I AM a Leaving Certificate student in Loreto Secondary School, Fermoy, Co Cork.

MANY teams that compete for world glory are accused of being all talk, but it is a boast rather than a weakness for one group of school students.

THERE were plenty of sparks flying yesterday when Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte picked the brains of students who have their own ideas about tackling climate change and promoting energy efficiency.

ALL-ROUND star Geraldine McLaughlin bagged a brace yesterday at Tolka Park to secure a first Umbro FAIS Senior Girls title for Loreto Secondary School since 1991.

A CAMPAIGNING nun has challenged the Catholic Church to ordain women, accusing the hierarchy of discrimination and double standards in excluding females from the priesthood.

TOP marks in the Junior Cert went to Cork, which has claimed five of the eight students with 12 or more higher level As in their exams this year.

A Co Wicklow school is launching the first formal Chinese teaching programme in association with UCD this morning.

I do not approve of the mode of dress employed by many young teenagers celebrating their Junior Certificate results.

A TEENAGER yesterday took the top prize in this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition for his brutally honest composition of five self-portraits.

BLACKWATER Community School, Lismore, defeated Clonmel opposition at the Clonmel Park Hotel last evening, winning impressively with a score of 104.

THE NATIONAL Roads Authority (NRA) is to examine the safety of the Mitchelstown bypass after a head-on collision there on Monday afternoon led to the deaths of two men.

Bangor Academy’s Victoria Bradshaw and Sarah Louise Winter won the All-Ireland Schools Girls’ Golf Championships at Milltown Golf Club today.

IT WAS a very bad day at school for Taoiseach Bertie Ahern yesterday.

THE altar gifts, at the funeral Mass, symbolised the life and talents of tragic 16-year-old Ciara Gibbs.

A POST MORTEM examination was conducted yesterday on 16-year-old Ciara Gibbs, the schoolgirl who was found dead next to her unconscious mother in their family home in Co Kilkenny on Sunday.

THREE Irish science teachers got a taste of what it’s like to walk on the moon when they spent a week at an astronaut-training centre in the United States.

THE first Leaving Certificate exam in religious education took place yesterday afternoon for 165 students.

THE tiny two-centuries-old church where the coffin of Claire McCluskey was brought last night could hold barely a quarter of the mourners who gathered to pay their respects.

A CAMPAIGN to combat alcohol misuse among young people which included an alternative youth centre won top prize at the Young Social Innovators (YSI) Showcase yesterday.