I overheard them on Tuesday as they hunched over their shopping, faces constricted with the effort of comparing one grind school, which charges about €7,295 a year to another, which charges €6,900 a year.

Drastic cuts in therapy services for “the most vulnerable children” are causing stress and anxiety to parents.

CHILDREN in a national school in Galway are being taught in a 109-year-old, crumbling, rat-infested building, it was claimed yesterday.

PARENTS of pupils at a Waterford primary school say they’re going to appeal a decision by the local council to grant retention for a mobile phone mast located within 180 metres from the junior infants’ classroom.

A MOTHER of two threatened with deportation last night appealed to the Justice Minister Michael McDowell to show compassion and halt plans to send the family back to the country where her husband and son were burned to death in politically motivated attacks.