Aspiring journalist Ciara McArdle showed the power of the written word yesterday when she won a national competition that encourages students to read newspapers.

There’s not a lot of information out there about second and third level scholarships. So Aileen Lee has been doing some research.

Most of the €96m in State funding given to 56 private schools in 2011-12 was spent on teacher salaries, writes political correspondent Mary Regan