THOUSANDS of primary pupils are to get a boost to their enjoyment of reading thanks to a €185,000 gift from a Cork publishing firm.

Another Northern hospital is to be stripped of its emergency surgery facilities, it was decided today.

A documentary about Eamon de Valera’s early life that was too controversial for RTE to screen is now in production with a US television station.

A Belfast hospital was today warned it was putting some of the most vulnerable members of society at risk after it approved plans to close 36 beds for the elderly.

THEY’RE as young as seven years of age but are already tackling courses in forensic psychology and archaeology.