The chances of giving all primary schools the same high-speed broadband that is now available at secondary level are slim but the move remains a priority, the Department of Education has said.

With everything from karate for kids to computers for the silver surfer, this year’s Cork Lifelong Learning Festival is fun, fascinating and — best of all — free.

Ray D'arcy returns with the series School Around the Corner on RTE One at 6.30pm tonight.

His passing went largely unnoticed, even within the rugby family, which was strange, given how he shaped the careers of so many promising players in their formative years.

In late 1988, Brian Dillons met Carrigtwohill in a Cork County U16 hurling final.

Actor and ex-Boyzone star Keith Duffy is to travel to West Cork next month to unveil a memorial to a teenager who worked tirelessly for autistic children.

CARDINAL Cahal B Daly was born in Loughguile, in the Glens of Antrim, on October 1 1917. He was educated at St Patrick’s National School in Loughguile, and then as a boarder in St Malachy’s College, Belfast, in 1930.

TWO out of three primary schools have lost English language teaching posts as a result of Government cutbacks, a teachers’ union survey has found.

GERRY Clerkin should be looking forward to the start of work on the €600,000 replacement of dozens of windows at St Patrick’s National School in a few weeks.

ONE of Ireland’s most talented young artists has beaten thousands of hopefuls to scoop a top award.