Juno McEnroe meets unions, employers groups, and politicians who give their take on the wave of pay disputes

Cash-strapped schools could be forced to hire out halls and classrooms for childcare to benefit fully from increased Government funding for their running costs.

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Children are going to school hungry and not enough is being done about it, according to the vast majority of schoolteachers.

Almost 20 years on from their biggest hits, the Proclaimers still haven’t tired of playing them, writes Ed Power

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The chances of giving all primary schools the same high-speed broadband that is now available at secondary level are slim but the move remains a priority, the Department of Education has said.

A 32-year-old Derry club GAA player tragically passed away during a training session last night.

Professionals such as nurses, gardaí and teachers are going to St Vincent de Paul in larger numbers than ever before seeking help to pay bills and feed their families. 

The battle for Scotland’s future is on a knife edge but is "moving in the direction of Yes", the country’s deputy first minister said, as two separate polls gave the No campaign the narrowest of leads.

Teachers' pay, class sizes, funding and school patronage are among the issues being discussed at the INTO annual congress, which gets under way today.

A group representing primary school teachers has said it is disrupting to a classroom, if children go on holiday during term time.

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For more than a decade, ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels’ has spawned an array of UK crime thrillers awash with dodgy geezers, graphic violence and Cock-er-ney rhyming slang.

Brace yourself for the boxing analogies.

The country's largest teachers union has decided not to advise its members which way to vote on the revised Croke Park Agreement.

The country's largest teachers union is not recommending which way its members should vote on the revised Croke Park Agreement.

Filmmaker made an emotional connection, says Claire O’Sullivan

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Cynthia Nixon will star as poet Emily Dickinson in biopic 'A Quiet Passion'.

There are many different kinds of violence explored in writer-director Dan Turner’s The Man Inside (15A), as boxer Clayton Murdoch (Ashley Bashy Thomas) negotiates the perilous labyrinth of crime-ridden inner-city London.

Model Agyness Deyn is to play a farmer in a bleak drama set in rural Scotland.

The casualties of war extend far beyond the terrible loss of human life.

The veteran director chose unknown actor Jeremy Irvine on sight to star in his screen adaptation of War Horse, says Declan Cashin

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' and 'Drive' lead the nominations for the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.

A small group of lawyers has walked out of court in protest at cuts to legal aid services.

THE sister of John Carthy, who was shot dead by gardaí at Abbeylara more than a decade ago, has said an Oireachtas inquiry would never have been sufficient to investigate the killing.

Andrew Garfield beat Oscar favourite Colin Firth to the best actor gong at tonight's Evening Standard British Film Awards and said it would "provide more fuel for my fire".

This is writer-director Mullan’s third outing and he doesn’t stint on the gritty, downbeat realism of his native Glasgow, circa l972, in a film that is both harrowing and funny.

British director Peter Mullan’s film 'Neds' has won this year’s top award at Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival.

Four Dublin men, who have become the first to be prosecuted under tough new anti-gangland legislation, are to face trial a court heard today.

A Chinese woman has gone on trial for running a brothel in Dublin city centre.

NEWLY-qualified teachers are applying for jobs in Britain, Dubai and New Zealand with up to half of this year’s graduates unable to find temporary or permanent posts, according teachers’ unions.

A garda accused of assault causing harm to a homeless man who later died, was today served with a book of evidence and returned for trial before a judge and jury.

Four Derry men arrested during a Garda investigation into dissident republicans in Co Donegal have been further remanded in custody as the defence waits for a book of evidence to be produced.

The Special Criminal Court has remanded five men in custody today after they were charged with being members of the INLA.

It may prove to be a good time to be in opposition given the economic uncertainty, broken general election promises on the part of the Government, a growing anger over political mismanagement and a sense that three terms in office has made Fianna Fáil insufferably arrogant.

Ireland’s largest trade union is to help fund a film about one of the rebels executed following the uprising against British rule in 1916, it announced today.