The Department of Education has been called on to intervene in a dispute at an Irish-medium unit in Louth where parents say their children are not being taught in Irish.

Children have better literacy and concentrate better in class if they are deeply immersed in two languages either in school or at home, a childhood bilingualism researcher says.

PLANS to review the way schools are recognised for state funding and buildings have been criticised by the head of the primary gaelscoil movement.

A DIRECTIVE to all-Irish schools from Education Minister Mary Hanafin that they must begin teaching English to children no later than the second term of junior infants is not to be issued until after the election.

A MAJOR row has erupted between parents and schools over proposed changes to rules on the teaching of English in all-Irish schools.