A pupil at a West Cork primary school has come in the top 1% of 750,000 children worldwide who took part in an online problem-solving challenge programme.

Gardaí are investigating an incident where a student was shot in the face with a pellet gun that was discharged outside a school in Co Clare.

Budding journalist Elayna Keller showed the power of the written word yesterday when she won a national competition that encourages students to read newspapers.

A school principal is supporting a move by publicans to encourage parents to bring their older teenage children to the pub to show them how to drink responsibly.

Ciara Judge is taking it all in her stride, being one of the top young scientists and now one of Ireland’s top brains, after getting 12 A’s in her Junior Certificate.

A group of Cork students who have been campaigning to establish a national day for missing people were last night named as Young Social Innovators of the year 2012.

It might look like Chinese — in fact, it is — but the students who figure out this problem could be making online shopping or computer gaming much easier within a few years.

TRIBUTES were paid to Muiris O Rócháin — the driving force behind the Willie Clancy Summer School during the past four decades — who died yesterday.

A PROJECT helping to restore local pride in a landmark urban lake has earned a group of Cork pupils a top prize in a national environment competition.

NUMBED young people mourning a victim of the horror road accident in Co Kerry were yesterday told by a priest to talk to each other and share their sorrow.

THE first of the victims of Wednesday’s devastating car crash in Co Kerry will be laid to rest today.

THE only female in the horrific fatal car crash in Co Kerry yesterday was described as “popular in the classroom” and “a “pleasant and outgoing” young girl by her school principal.

The Department of Education & Science has left the students of our school without two teachers for the coming year. The department told the principal the reason is the school has too many teachers.

ARD Scoil Ris, Limerick maintained the high standard for the college in the TCH All-Ireland Schools Quiz at the South Court Hotel Limerick, winning a very exciting contest by just two points with a score of 102 against Mercy Secondary School, Kanturk.