Syrians are always up for a party. They’re like us at our best. They are a natural fit with Irish people, writes Victoria White

Parents of three children with special needs have said they were horrified to learn the youngsters were being taught in a windowless storage room in a newly opened €4.2m national school in Co Cork.

THE house construction phase of the country’s first eco village commenced on Saturday in Cloughjordan in north Tipperary.