IRISH children are among the safest in Europe in their internet behaviour but almost one-in-10 has seen sexual images online.

SCHOOLS are to get the classroom laptop computers and digital projects promised by the Government under a €22 million investment in the new year.

JAMSIE and Rena Power are no historians but they are giving children in a Waterford village a unique insight into growing up in the 1940s and 1950s.

Teachers are to get special training in how to spot bullying among children on Bebo.

FILM making students at a special school were on top of the world after collecting their own Oscar award yesterday.

TEENAGERS are making use of a Government-sponsored website in a bid to help others who have been abused or humiliated through the internet.

A HARD-HITTING programme teaching school-children how to use the internet safely and report any approaches by predatory paedophiles directly to the police has been launched in the North — but there are no plans yet for a compulsory programme of that kind in schools on this side of the border.

A GOVERNMENT agency has criticised networking site Bebo for its continued failure to implement a registration process which would root out pornography and bullying on a site used by hundreds of thousands of Irish children.

Parents must regularly warn their children not to talk to strangers on the internet, Education Minister Mary Hanafin said today.

Up to 95% of children have access to the internet, Education Minister Mary Hanafin said today as she launched a new website to promote on-line safety for youngsters.

THE education of students at Ireland’s first all-computer secondary school is being curtailed because they do not have access to broadband, it was claimed yesterday.

More Irish children are now displaying their photographs on the internet which can lead to strangers discovering their location, it has emerged.

YOU'RE 10 years old, have an Irish spelling test tomorrow and your parents are refusing to let you go to the Westlife concert.

CHILDREN as young as eight are looking at pornography on the internet and one in four eight to 17-year-olds accidentally access porn websites.