The inclusion of questions of student opinion on higher level maths for Leaving Certificate students was among the main talking points outside exam halls at lunchtime yesterday.

The weekend finally arrived for Leaving Certificate students after the afternoon maths exams in which record numbers are expected to have taken the honours paper.

A total of 90 new jobs have been announced by firms in Dublin, Cork, Clare and Galway this morning.

An 81-year-old priest named in the Murphy Report has today been jailed for two years for sexually abusing a girl 30 years ago.

A COURT has heard an apology from a 79-year-old former priest to a woman for the “torture” of sexual abuse he subjected her to from the age of 11.

ONE of the country’s leading recruitment agencies has said lower skilled production jobs are being replaced by high-end specialist roles.

FORMER Fianna Fáil TD Marian McGennis yesterday rejected suggestion there was anything improper about her nomination to the Senate in February 1993 by former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan picked up the tab when Fine Gael councillor Therese Ridge and lobbyist Frank Dunlop flew to Cork as part of her canvass for the 1993 Seanad election, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

PAUL McGennis has been appointed managing partner at Ireland’s fastest growing law firm, BCM Hanby Wallace.

EMPLOYMENT in the construction sector grew by 42% this year, according to Dublin-based recruitment agency Sigmar.

THE woman who received a public apology from Cardinal Desmond Connell said she felt no joy upon hearing of his resignation as Archbishop of Dublin.

Cardinal Desmond Connell has issued a statement denying that he tried to protect a priest accused of child abuse from a Garda investigation.