As many as 1,000 children are being dragged into criminal behaviour by adult gangs and crime networks, a report which surveys Garda Juvenile Liaison Officers has estimated.

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The Government has launched a second investigation into serious fire safety concerns in Celtic Tiger-era schools amid growing fears that the scale of the crisis has been deliberately “suppressed”.

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone says the Government is working hard on the wording for next year's abortion referendum.

A new partnership between the University of Limerick and the Irish Examiner has been launched, in which coursework produced by UL journalism students will be highlighted on irishexaminer.com.

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University College Cork president Patrick O’Shea used the inaugural Cork University Business School conference to announce plans to build a business school in Cork City centre that will be one of the biggest in the country.

Vaping from electronic cigarettes could be as bad for the heart as smoking the real thing, scientists warn.

Streaming giants, like Netflix and Amazon, may have to provide 20% local content to EU subscribers.

With the election under way we can expect the minds and energies of our political leaders to be focused elsewhere for the next month or so. However, the world doesn’t stop when the posters go up.

First year at college can take lots of getting used to after the familiarity of school and living with mum and dad. So imagine if you were disability campaigner, Joanne O’Riordan? Ailin Quinlan caught up with her to see how she found life at UCC.

Prince Charles of Britain has said he was encouraged by efforts to bring the North’s two communities together during a visit to East Belfast.

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Parents campaigning for a new, 800-pupil, all-Irish secondary school in a Cork town will meet TDs next week as they ramp up their campaign to avert a looming schools place crisis.

Primary school teachers have called on the Government to suspend the final phase of the cuts to teaching numbers in smaller schools.

Not content with topping the Premier League, Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge decided to give some local school kids a day they will never forget.

The Government is under intense pressure to explain how details came to light that phone calls in and out of Garda stations were being recorded, after it emerged that the attorney general was informed of the practice last November.

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A COUPLE of days in London is fun, but I was commandeered to go by my publisher and my long-suffering editor, to finish my latest book, 30 Years of the Ballymaloe Cookery School.

Maureen Sullivan is the youngest known survivor admitted to one of the Magdalene Laundries.

I WISH my son wasn’t at a fee-paying school.

Analytical studies on entrepreneurial difficulties and failure are rare, both in Ireland and internationally.

As the deserter issue is such a complicated one, I believe that Justice Minister Alan Shatter has approached it in the right way.

A SCHOOL principal made an official approach to the Government last night to buy one of the state’s controversial e-voting machines for €1.

THIS week, after nine years of war, the United States finally withdrew its forces from Iraq.

ST FLANNAN’S College, Ennis were forced to dig deep against a gallant Intermediate School Killorglin side at a rain-lashed Croagh pitch, before garnering the draw they needed to advance to the knockout stages of this year’s Corn Ui Mhuiri.

AN inspirational teenager who has overcome incredible odds to live a full life was among several young people honoured at a Garda awards scheme last night.

A SCHOOL principal will today resume her High Court battle with Education Minister Ruairi Quinn after he sought to dismiss her on the strength of a controversial and costly report into her running of a Kilkenny school.

A CAMPAIGN to stop cuts to primary school buses in rural areas is “only just beginning” according to activists who have mobilised up to 600 parents from schools across Munster.

A SCHOOL which decided not to give students relationship and sexuality education is to review its policy following criticism in a Department of Education inspection report.

A SCHOOL ordered to offer a place to a Traveller child after it was found to have indirectly discriminated against him is to appeal the finding in the Circuit Court.

SCHOOL leavers claimed two-thirds of college places last autumn despite a sharp rise in mature students and other applicants seeking entry.

A SCHOOL principal has urged his pupils to report boy-racers to the gardaí, even if they happen to be fellow students.

A SCHOOL principal today begins a sad and lonely task in the Co Limerick hamlet of Ballyorgan which nestles in the Ballyhouras mountains.

FAMILY and friends of Toyosi Shittabey gathered during an emotional candlelight vigil in north-west Dublin yesterday as community leaders moved to ease tensions in the community.

SCHOOL inspectors have not outlined any concerns about more than 40 special needs assistant (SNA) posts at more than a dozen schools visited in the last 15 months.

SCHOOL principals have warned that the caring and support work schools do for students is being put at risk by a ban on middle management promotions.

ASHTON SCHOOL go into today’s Munster Senior Schoolboys Cup final at Garryduff (2.30pm) against Bandon Grammar School hell-bent on returning the balance of power to Cork city after a six-year famine.