Building work is set to start on a new €30m building project at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, after Tánaiste and Education Minister Mary Coughlan approved the contract for the project this week.

JAMSIE and Rena Power are no historians but they are giving children in a Waterford village a unique insight into growing up in the 1940s and 1950s.

Niall Murray, Education Correspondent

Eoin English

The director of a controversial new online training course for primary school teachers has rejected criticism of the course from established teacher training colleges.