Building work on a new €3.8m library on the northside of Cork city is due to start within weeks.

A woman who got a job after returning to education in her early 40s fears that cuts at the college she studied at will deprive others of the same chance.

Students from disadvantaged communities will be left with the choice of emigration or the dole instead of increased job prospects because of a €12m budget cut, opposition parties have warned Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.

PUPILS from Cork’s northside are enjoying the magic of reading books and some are even thinking about becoming authors themselves.

STUDENTS at 30 disadvantaged schools will still have staffed libraries when they return in September after a Department of Finance row-back on plans to cut librarian posts.

LEAVING Certificate Applied (LCA) students on Cork’s northside were pleased with their exams so far after yesterday afternoon’s German paper.

THE loss of library staff at 30 schools in some of the country’s poorest communities could lead to more children dropping out of education, teachers have claimed.

A NEW principal has been appointed to take charge of the country’s largest further education college in the autumn.