Autism charity Shine’s chief executive has said three special needs children being taught in a windowless store room at a new €4.2m primary school “are being treated like second-class citizens”.

Parents of three children with special needs have said they were horrified to learn the youngsters were being taught in a windowless storage room in a newly opened €4.2m national school in Co Cork.

At one school in Cobh, Co Cork, pupils have been hard at work finding ways to increase their green credentials, much to the pleasure of the teachers and principal, writes education correspondent Niall Murray

GARDAÍ are searching for a middle-aged man who tried to lure a seven-year-old girl into his car after claiming he’d been sent to pick her up from school.