SHE might be the only girl at the previously all-boys’ Nagle Community College, but Meagan Kavanagh was with her friends when she started her second-level education yesterday.

THE decision to enrol a girl in an all-boys’ second-level school in September will not open the floodgates for single-sex schools, but is likely to spark a significant debate on the gender mix in Irish education.

A coroner today ordered the Health Service Executive to investigate a west Dublin nursing home after the body of an elderly patient was found in a shocking state.