A new book celebrates the pioneering educators who founded Cork’s Scoil Mhuire, writes Ellie O’Byrne, where past pupils include actress Fiona Shaw, knitwear designer Bébhinn Marten and TV presenter Clodagh McKenna.

"My hand-painted batik greeting cards, sell very well, as I offer a free service of personalising the cards while the customer looks around the shop," says Judy Reardon.

Banbridge Academy completed a fairytale season by claiming the Subway All-Ireland Schoolgirls Championship in style at Havelock Park yesterday.

Ursulines Thurles’ hopes of a first Subway All-Ireland Schoolgirls title since 1996 are all but dead as Kilkenny College and Banbridge Academy led the way on the first day of the national championships at Havelock Park yesterday.

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Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has agreed to consider alternative locations for a step-down facility to house female ex-prisoners as the first choice site has provoked controversy being in the vicinity of no less than eight schools.

Scoil Mhuire, Carrick on Suir defeated Coláiste Íosagáin, Stillorgan to claim the All-Ireland SAFC title after a thrilling Lidl Post Primary Schools Ladies Football final at Nowlan Park yesterday (4-16 to 2-8).

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Six steps from heaven stand the students of Rochestown College.

Eighteen registered sex offenders are living within walking distance of a cluster of schools near Cork City centre housing thousands of students.

Schoolchildren are spreading the message about the importance of wearing seatbelts and being visible on roads at night, and some of the best campaigns were rewarded yesterday.

Robot wars clicked, blinked, and whirred into the lives of 500 Cork schoolchildren this week, their months of hard work culminating in 19 of their specially-created robots doing battle on the grounds of Cork Institute of Technology.

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

After two years of delays, pupils at one of Cork city’s most prestigious secondary schools look set to finally move into their long-awaited new school building.

Mark Ellis takes the field for Cork in tomorrow’s Munster SHC clash with Waterford as a representative of Millstreet, a long-standing Gaelic football stronghold in the Rebel County.

Cork Church of Ireland and Cork Harlequins were the biggest winners on a productive Irish Junior Cup weekend for Munster teams.

They are All Ireland champs — and that’s not up for debate.

The former St Patrick’s Marymount Hospice on Wellington Road in Cork looks set to be taken over by Griffith College.

The resolution of an accommodation crisis at a fee-paying Cork school has been welcomed by parents after a building in temporary use has become available again for classes.

Classes began for some students at a fee-paying school in Cork yesterday as efforts to resolve its accommodation crisis continued.

Efforts are continuing to avoid moving 400 secondary students to temporary classrooms almost two miles from their Cork city centre school this week.

A fee-paying Cork secondary school hopes to remain in its city centre location after parents raised concerns about plans to move classes to a temporary location 3km away.

Angry parents demanded information last night after they suddenly learnt their children’s fee-paying school is to relocate within days from the city centre to the suburbs.

A challenge to Irish students to raise €55,000 in cash for a charity in West Africa may seem a near impossible task, but one group of schoolgirls proved that with the right motivation and much teamwork the feat could be achieved.

One of Cork’s longest-running independent schools is celebrating its 60th year, but also the involvement of one of its founders who still plays an active role as she approaches her 88th birthday.

FOR the past seven weeks school principal Denis O’Sullivan turned up in his classroom from Monday to Friday anxious to pass on to children some of the knowledge accumulated over a long career in education.

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PARENTS of children with special needs have vowed to maintain a campaign of protest over the summer unless the Government reverses its recent decision to axe some 200 special needs assistants (SNAs) in schools.

Gonzaga College in Ranelagh in Dublin has been listed as Ireland's top school for progression to university, according to the Sunday Times' Parent Power Survey.

SCHOOLS in Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s home county which have been waiting from eight to 12 years for building works to begin are proof of a need to overhaul the bureaucratic process, a teachers’ union has claimed.

CORK Leaving Certificate student Anthony Leahy is today overcoming the heartache of deja vu, after losing the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All Ireland Schools quiz final by the exact same score for the second year running.

THERE will be plenty of tears and celebrations in Bandon tonight, no matter what the outcome of a unique Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup final at Garryduff this afternoon (2.30pm).

CHILDREN at a 100-year-old Limerick school are looking forward to the end of queuing in the cold and rain just to use the toilet after being given good news about their new building — for the second time in a year.

There were poignant scenes today as final respects were paid to mother and daughter Caitriona and Caitlin Innes found dead in tragic circumstances in their home.

THE funeral arrangements for Catriona Innes, aged 26, and her seven-year-old daughter, Katelyn, were being finalised last night.

At the Auburn Lodge Hotel, Ennis last evening St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Spanish Point had a very exciting win over Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon in a first round quiz session.

KANTURK’S Mercy Secondary School (Scoil Mhuire Kanturk) and Coachford College last night progressed to the second round proper of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings schools quiz after two exciting encounters in Macroom.

RESIDENTS will target a contentious city council meeting tonight which looks set to give the green light to Cork’s first wet shelter for homeless street drinkers.

ALL seven classes at Scoil Mhuire in Horeswood, Co Wexford, have more than 30 pupils, with infants learning in a group almost twice the size promised by the Government two years ago.

SENATORS and TDS may be sent back to school - so teachers can show them the problems they face having to teach some of the biggest classes in Europe.