Ten years ago, Rena Buckley was the youngest starter in Cork’s first Division 1 National League final, aged just 17.

Pupils from two Munster schools scooped the top awards in a national competition that encourages children to develop vital road safety skills.

Engine failure is being investigated as the primary cause of a light aircraft crash which killed a flight instructor and a trainee pilot.

A challenge to Irish students to raise €55,000 in cash for a charity in West Africa may seem a near impossible task, but one group of schoolgirls proved that with the right motivation and much teamwork the feat could be achieved.

A GAELTACHT village which loses its post office on Friday has been dealt another hammer blow.

THE National Education Welfare Board’s charter of children’s rights states, among other things, that every child has the right to an education.

FOUR people, including a girl aged four and a mother of six young children, have been given a second chance at life due to organs they have received from a Co Limerick Leaving Certificate student.

A CALL was made yesterday for more Government support for anti-drugs programmes, as a major awareness initiative got underway in Cork.

THE provincial capital of Westmeath was the focal point last night for a another nail-biting episode in the on-going national TCH schools’ quiz.

AN exceptional high standard of knowledge has already created exciting stand-offs in the first round of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings Schools Quiz.

THE US bishops have urged the US Administration to step back from the brink of war, saying clearly they find it difficult to justify.