Professionals working with young people must be properly trained about transgender issues which many of them do not understand, researchers have said.

University College Cork will become the first university in Ireland to fly the Transgender Pride Flag this afternoon.

A study which features the views of 100 schoolchildren has found that many of them see First Communion as a significant benchmark in their childhood and a normal part of coming of age and school participation.

Almost 40 UCC academics last night welcomed the decision to withdraw an invitation to British far-right leader Nick Griffin to take part in a university debate on free speech.