Some 200 schoolchildren from around the Cork region will go to college tomorrow to extract DNA from strawberries, study robotics, solve giant puzzles — and learn that maths and science are cool.

A mother-of-three charged with rioting after police halted a republican parade in Belfast was at the head of the 60-strong crowd that attacked officers, a court has heard.

Protesters have broken up a meeting between Irish Water and local councillors in Cork today.

Senior members of the Democratic Unionist Party, including a minister in the power-sharing executive, crowded into the public gallery at a Belfast court as a party colleague was accused of posting an offensive Facebook message.

A Democratic Unionist councillor has appeared in court in the North charged in connection with a comment she posted on Facebook.

THE Noel Meade trained Pandorama faces a race against time to make the Cheltenham Gold Cup on March 18.

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An Irish language teacher was convicted today of hurling abuse in Irish at police officers during a night out in Belfast.