Part-time teachers were yesterday given a major boost with a High Court judgment that has major implications for their entitlements.

The Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn has brought a High Court action seeking to clarify a Labour Court finding that a teacher is an employee of the Minister.

Ten Irish athletes are in action today at the European Athletics Championship in Gothenburg.

IT could be said, in historical terms, the fall of the Irish ascendancy marked the rise of another ruling class the Catholic church.