Extra middle-management posts being created from next autumn should allow school leaders give more time to improving education and other work, Education Minister Richard Bruton has told primary school principals.

Blackrock’s David Cashman lit up their RedFM SHL clash with St Finbarr’s on Saturday as the Rockies engineered a 16-point victory in Togher. 

Solomon Northup sets a decent standard in the one-mile Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Maiden in Dundalk tonight.

AIB MUNSTER CLUB IFC SEMI-FINAL:

Valley Rovers 0-12 Na Piarsaigh 0-8

Exhausted principals are being prevented from stepping back from school leadership because they risk having to move schools as a result, TDs and senators have been told.

Lismore 0-9 Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-6

Majestic Timeline has put County Roscommon handler Adrian Joyce on the map in his first season as a trainer.

Valley Rovers 0-13 Macroom 0-13

Valley Rovers 1-14 Kiskeam 1-07

Valley Rovers 2-06 Clonakilty 1-06

Valley Rovers 2-08 St Michael’s 0-12

Simplifications to school rolls and registers are just steps in the right direction towards keeping all pupil records online instead of on paper, principals said.

Valley Rovers 1-19 Erin’s Own 1-05

Parents, principals, and teacher unions have slammed the latest cuts to special needs resources claiming the Government is directly targeting the most vulnerable children.

Warren Gatland knows there will be tougher days than the one his British & Irish Lions faced in Western Australia yesterday, starting this Saturday in Brisbane, yet you could not blame the head coach for feeling a little pleased with the ruthless way his team dispatched their opponents.

A few times a week and at the end of every month, primary school deputy principal Paul Harrington complies with education law by writing pupil attendance figures from his computer into a book like those used by his 19th century predecessors.

The President, Michael D Higgins, has urged young people not to get involved in cyberbullying or ganging up on vulnerable classmates.

President Michael D Higgins has joined primary school principals in calls to reduce the red tape that holds them back from teaching the arts.

Solid second-half defending helped Inniscarra to grind out victory over Valley Rovers in the opening round of the Premier IHC at Cloughduv yesterday.

A crew had to jump aboard an unmanned runaway speedboat heading for a busy pier, in what was one of four dramatic rescues Baltimore RNLI performed in just 24 hours.

There was good news for Cork football boss Conor Counihan in Saturday’s Premier IC game at Donoughmore where Fiachra Lynch showed no ill effects of the injury which limited his involvement in the National League.

Carrigaline were always in control, easily beating Valley Rovers to claim a second successive South East U21 FC title at Kinsale yesterday, their third divisional win in five years.

Former EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy today defended her decision to give a second chance to the ex-fiance who was convicted of her assault and declared: “He’s not a horrible person.”

New teachers lack the social skills needed to cope with large classrooms of children, partly because they are chosen for teacher training courses on their academic achievements alone.

The director of the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN) has told Education Minister Ruairi Quinn it would be fairer to spread education cuts across all schools instead of targeting those in disadvantaged and rural areas.

Three-fifths of schools are financially worse off now than they were when the recession began, according to a survey by the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN).

A group representing primary school principals has called on the Government to exempt schools from paying VAT.

HE WAS racing down a corridor as per usual when he noticed that his left heel was clipping the ground. Intermittently.

Ex-EastEnders actress Natalie Cassidy has told how she still loves her ex-fiance, despite the fact that he assaulted her.

GARDAÍ have arrested a man as part of nationwide operation after nearly 120 primary school principals complained they hadn’t received history-learning aids for which they had paid.

THE sea around the Kinsale Gas field is producing spectacular sightings of more than 1,000 dolphins who are congregating to feed on migrating shoals of herring and sprats.

PRINCIPALS should get more time to plan how schools teach reading and maths as a result of the Croke Park agreement, primary schools heads hope.

PRIMARY principals have been put in an unfair position by their union’s work-to-rule directives because they have legal obligations towards pupils, a conference heard yesterday.

PRIMARY school principals have said the same obligations should be placed on those working within the social services to investigate suspected child abuse as has been placed on them to report cases of abuse in the first place.

A LIFEBOAT crewman had to wade through 80 feet of thick deep mud to rescue a family whose yacht got stuck on a mud-bank at the weekend.

SCHOOL principals have claimed that social services are not following up on reports from schools of suspected child abuse and neglect.

SCHOOLS should be allowed to allocate their staffing levels based on their needs rather than on a strict formula from the Department of Education, principals said yesterday.

CHILD neglect is no longer affecting just pupils from poorer backgrounds and needs to be the subject of mandatory reporting laws along with other forms of abuse, principals have warned.

THE level of bullying against principals by colleagues and parents is on the increase and those recently appointed to the position are being particularly targeted, it has been claimed.

A MAN has lost a bid to make a High Court claim for personal injuries against the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland arising out of his involvement in an accident in which he was a passenger in a stolen car.

Kilkenny 3-11 Galway 0-17