The €10.5m regeneration of a historic convent and school as a heritage centre has been described as a living showcase of one of Ireland’s greatest social justice pioneers.

A historic city convent which has undergone a €10m conservation and regeneration project is set to open as an iconic heritage and visitor centre.

Future stars of stage and screen gathered gongs and shared the red carpet with celebrities at a student theatre event in Dublin.

Presentation Brothers College, the favourites, had to battle all the way before overcoming brave, injury-hit Bandon Grammar School in a pulsating Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup final at Musgrave Park today.

Students with a passion for art might be surprised to find they may also love computer coding, says the principal of a girls school that started coding classes last year.

Bandon Grammar School 17, St Munchin’s College 13: Bandon Grammar School created their own special piece of history on a wet and windy afternoon at Bandon RFC yesterday when they advanced to the Clayton Hotels Munster Senior Schools Cup semi-final for the first time.

A Disney movie, parental love, and two autistic sons whose connection with Buzz and Woody gave them the language to communicate were all key to formulating a simple but genius idea that could help autistic kids the world over.

Bandon came close to causing a major shock in Division 1 of the Munster Junior League against defending champions Clonmel. The second division champions were leading 7-6 at half time with a try from Chris Laidler which Richard Walsh converted.

It wasn’t exactly your typical schoolday for the children of Presentation College in Athenry recently.

A Corkwoman has moved a step close to becoming a saint after Pope Francis declared her venerable.

Muskerry produced a huge performance to defeat a fancied St Senan’s side 25-7 to clinch fourth place in Division One of the Munster Junior League and qualification for the All-Ireland Junior Cup next season.

A €10m heritage and visitor centre which will transform the site of education pioneer Nano Nagle’s first convent has been given the green light.

FAI Munster Senior Cup: Carrigaline CS 0 Presentation College 1: A first-half David Dalton header was enough for Presentation Brothers College to claim the Bank of Ireland FAI Schools Dr Tony O’Neill Munster Senior Cup against Carrigaline Community School at O’Shea Park, Blarney last night.

I write this letter in bewilderment at the state of Munster Rugby today. A team with real potential, they need support but unfortunately the bulk of the supporters don’t live in the city where the team has been decreed to play their games.

Blazing sunshine brought a sea of colour to Killarney Races for Ladies’ Day, with large numbers of fashionable women turning out.

Both nuns were from Tipperary and were highly regarded among the leaders of the Presentation Order in this country.

A Kerry student beat almost 10,000 entrants in a fantasy writing competition with his story about a tense chase through an airship.

Belvedere College caused one of the biggest upsets in recent years in Irish schools basketball when they stunned defending champions St Malachy’s of Belfast in yesterday’s final, 60-50.

Secondary school teachers will mount protests at lunchtime today over the introduction of a reformed Junior Cert.

Series like ‘My Super Sweet 16’ make good TV, but they don’t sway Irish kids’ birthday expectations, says Áilín Quinlan

A building that once housed the 18th century South Presentation Convent and School is to be transformed into a €10m visitor centre and “a sacred space for contemplation” in the heart of Cork City.

An Irish religious order will unveil a €10m plan today to preserve its first convent — founded in Cork in the 18th century — and develop it as a heritage and visitor centre.

The magic of Christmas is found nowhere more than in the hearts of children.

I am a good drawer and have been since I was a teenager.

The Irish whizz kid who, at just 12, became the world’s youngest app developer has unveiled a new game that’s set to be another smash hit.

Survivors of abuse at Christian Brother schools have accused organisers of a Christian Brothers commemoration event this weekend of attempting to muzzle them by not allowing them to speak.

Team Ireland has arrived home at Dublin Airport to cheers and celebrations from their family members.

Cork Choral Festival is more than competition, it is primarily about the joy of singing, writes Declan Townsend

St Munchin’s College celebrated a thoroughly deserved Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final victory over Presentation Brothers College Cork with gusto at Temple Hill yesterday to clinch a place in the March 19 decider against Rockwell College.

PARENTS seeking places for their daughters in a Kerry all-girls school for September 2013 continued to queue last night, despite being earlier told by the principal they did not have to do so.

WE are writing to you on behalf of all history students, current and future, who will all suffer the consequences if the speculation about removing history as a compulsory subject on the Junior Certificate course comes to pass.

TO MANY, Cillian Murphy is the dark horse of Irish cinema, as likely to be seen in modestly budgeted indigenous films as in high-concept Hollywood blockbusters.

THE screams of joy were almost audible at home in Cork when the girls from Presentation Secondary School in Ballyphehane were announced as winners of the All-Island Choir Competition in Belfast.

I HAVE long admired the great contribution of the many admirable women religious who have so enhanced the stature of the Catholic Church over the centuries.

Children’s Minister Barry Andrews today insisted Irish people no longer have the deference towards the Catholic Church that allowed institutional child abuse to thrive for decades.

LATE drama was once again the order of the day as Presentation Brothers College edged a gripping Avonmore Milk Muster Junior Schools Cup semi-final replay at Cork IT yesterday.

MICHAEL CARMODY (Castletroy College, Limerick) led all the way to win the senior boys title at the Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships at Tramore Racecourse yesterday, when the lack of teacher cover due to the cutbacks was reflected in much smaller entries.

EACH year the failure rate in maths in our State exams is observed and analysed to the point of tedious predictability. Suggested remedies include changing the syllabus and/or teaching methods. These suggestions might be considered logical and feasible if 88% of students were failing and 12% passing gloriously.