THE key to success in the Junior and Leaving Certificate exams, beginning on Wednesday, is to avoid long cramming sessions before every paper, teachers have advised.

One of the country’s largest teaching unions today urged pupils sitting next week’s Leaving and Junior Certificate exams not to stay up all night cramming.

THE State’s defence of a High Court case taken by the parents of an autistic boy has been described as immoral by a teachers’ union leader.

ONE of the country’s largest public service unions has called for the renegotiation of the national pay agreement to make up for losses to rising inflation.

A man was killed on his 58th birthday while laying out cones for a traffic survey and today the victim's family said they did not want to see a jail sentence imposed on the driver of the lorry that killed him as there had been enough suffering in the case.