Nearly 56,000 Leaving Cert students are due to get their results later this morning.

THE salutary lesson to be drawn from the bullying case in which a 10-year-old boy was awarded damages of €10,000 is the urgent need for teachers to be pro-active in tackling this problem.

The Government is coming under fire for not imposing tougher penalties on shops that sell alcohol to minors.

The National Parents' Council has advised students worried about today's CAO offers to contact a special helpline set up to offer guidance.

The National Parents' Council has called for a more in-depth and rational debate on the issue of pornography and censorship in Ireland.

The standing committee of the ASTI will decide this morning whether to suspend strike action pending talks aimed at resolving the three-month-old dispute.