FELICITY Kennedy has a simple question for abused women who try to excuse their partner’s behaviour by reference to his difficult childhood, his alcoholism or some other personal problem.

A voluntary organisation is set to unveil plans to convert a former convent into sheltered housing which will help fill a void in providing accommodation for older couples and single people.

YOUR front page story with its very evocative photograph (January 3) showing the extreme measures undertaken by prospective Tralee parents for a school place for their children for September 2010 is one of the most amazing stories I have read in a long teaching career.

A NEW nurse education centre costing €5.3 million is to open at Mercy University Hospital in Cork.

THE Department of Education is due to build a new second-level school in Kinvara, Co Galway — where the Mercy Order controversially plans to close its school.

THE extent to which parents and local communities fund vital services to the country’s schools is highlighted in dozens of inspection reports published by the Department of Education yesterday.

THE discovery of the body of a newborn baby will have sent shivers down the spine of any resident of Granard, Co Longford, old enough to remember the lonely deaths of 15-year-old Ann Lovett and her secret child 21 years ago.

TWO former pupils were honoured by a County Cork school last night for their striking academic achievements.

It’s not easy to come up with an apology when your apple-cheeked daughter is caught dragging naked prisoners around on a dog-leash and pointing gleefully to their exposed genitals.

IT could be said, in historical terms, the fall of the Irish ascendancy marked the rise of another ruling class the Catholic church.