The principal of a Co Cork secondary school has gone on leave amid ongoing tensions with the Education and Training Board (ETB) over unfinished building work following the liquidation of the Sammon Contracting Group.

Many of them have never even jogged for fun — but now a group of teachers from a rural West Cork primary school are lacing up their running shoes to help pay for new classrooms.

TWENTY-THREE children with special needs were welcomed into their new school in Dublin this week and then told an hour later that there was no place for them.

AT the church in the centre of Navan town, the young visitors had to wait their turn for a flame to die before they could find a space to stand their lighted candles.

The Catholic Secondary School Parents Association has welcomed the result of the ASTI ballot, which voted to accept the Government's pay offer for carrying out supervision and substitution duties.