It is heartening to learn that young people, encouraged by their mentors, are taking arms against the seas of litter despoiling Ireland, writes Damien Enright

Students at home and abroad are among dozens of groups who are close to setting a record for the longest conversation in Irish.

A company set up in a hurling-mad school has won a top prize at a student enterprise competition for its camán-shaped keyrings customised with school, club, and county crests.

There is more than glory for their schools spurring on student teams preparing to do battle with their robots later this week.

Crystal Swing matriarch Mary Murray Burke has said she’s “amazed” with the online reaction that the band’s latest music video is receiving and said it demonstrates “we can laugh at ourselves”.

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.

CRYSTAL SWING singer Derek Burke, 18, famed for his hucklebuck, is over the moon having clocked up enough points to get into “any college” he wants.

CRYSTAL SWING singer Derek Burke is bringing a special someone to his graduation ball today after RTÉ presenter Lucy Kennedy agreed to be his date for the evening.

IT WAS one of those seminal TV moments when you knew that nothing would ever be the same again.

YOU’VE heard of the Mammas and the Papas — well here’s something completely different.

“PEOPLE are nearly all prayed out, nearly all cried out. It’s just one tragedy after another.”