Close to 24,000 Leaving Certificate students got to show off their French language skills yesterday morning.

Rory O’Dwyer reflects on what was the most significant State commemoration of the 1916 Rising up to now — and considers its impact on the Ireland of the time.

BRENDAN O’DONOGHUE, former secretary general of the Department of Environment and Local Government, has written a magnificent assessment of the career of one of his predecessors during the period before independence. 

The resignation of An Coimisinéir Teanga, Seán Ó Cuirreáin, adds to the growing suspicion that there is now an undeclared policy in operation to do away with what’s left of Irish in the public life of our country.