A Mayo community has been gripped by shock and sorrow as it struggles to come to terms with the loss of three members of a much-loved family in Monday’s horror road crash.

A Mayo community has been gripped by shock and sorrow as it struggles to come to terms with the loss of three members of a much-loved family in Monday’s horror road crash.

An inner city Dublin school has come up with a way to help homeless children.

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A 14-year-old girl who died after a minibus carrying school pupils on a field trip collided with a bin lorry has been named.

Andrea Mara hears how marketed fruit waters can contain as much sugar as cola and other fizzy drinks, and why the Super Troopers health programme is delivering results.  

Speaking about this exciting announcement for his school, Glanmire Community College Principal Ronan McCarthy said how proud they were to be chosen for this project.

A school in West Cork is playing a major role in helping to reverse the decline in the local bee population. 

A community-supported school bus is ensuring that 15 homeless children living in emergency accommodation in the city get to school every day.

People who take part in Special Olympics activities find it improves their social skills and emotional well-being.

Some primary school pupils in the North have escaped injury after part of their classroom ceiling came crashing down during a lesson.

From a small secondary school with just 68 students and four staff members, Christ King Girls’ Secondary School is now the largest girls’ school in Munster — and celebrates 50 years in education this year.

One of the country’s most exclusive boys schools, Glenstal Abbey in Limerick, last year recorded a €4m income as the number of students attending increased again.

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“There is an outpouring of love and helplessness,” said Mourneabbey-born Fr Seán Corkery as he tried to sum up the feelings of a small tight-knit community experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions as news filtered back from Glasgow that police had officially identified Karen Buckley’s body.

While the sun shone brightly on a rural community in Co Cork, there was a cloud of anxiety hanging over locals yesterday as they tuned into news bulletins in the hope missing Karen Buckley would be found safe and well many miles away in Glasgow.

Heavy school bags are set to become a thing of the past in a school with its eyes on the future.

The theme of the protest was taken from the Disney hit animation Frozen — and its emphasis was on a promise which many believe has been put on ice.

Three Cork brothers have been selected on the Irish team for the World Karate Championship in Lisbon at the end of the month.

Ahakista, West Cork €1.2 million-plus

Eddie Dunbar is still in the race leader’s yellow jersey after stage three of the Stena Ireland International Junior Tour yesterday was won by Matthew Teggart of the Nicolas Roche Performance Team.

And Mr. Burns and Principal Skinner. Smithers is probably coming too.

Newtown School in Waterford has become the latest fee-paying second-level college to join the free education scheme.

Students from St Kieran’s NS in Broughal, Co Offaly have created a virtual reality version of Clonmacnoise as part of a history project.

Tony Lyons was counting his lucky stars last night.

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“Your song has ended, but the melody lingers on” — the touching Twitter tribute posted by Regina Ní hAilpín just hours after her brother’s body was found in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday evening.

A number of buildings had to be evacuated and streets cordoned off as firefighters struggled to control a major blaze which broke out near the centre of Dungarvan, Co Waterford

He’s remembered as a boy with a roguish smile and a normal child, but one who seemed to have a special talent.

Rugby star Donncha O’Callaghan walked the walk yesterday for a green school with the wow factor.

The President unveiled a striking sculpture on the grounds of one of the country’s most famous secondary schools yesterday to mark the 125th anniversary of its foundation.

Fee-charging schools have warned that further cuts to their funding in next month’s budget will cost the taxpayer money.

It was a long, long, road which, in the end, culminated in a short walk that brought a town to a standstill.

A Cork mother has admitted she is agonising over how to break the news to her daughter that she won’t be able to start primary school later this week.

Parents gathered together in little huddles and went in and out of Ballinkillen NS yesterday, to hear how best they can tell their own children about what happened to Eoghan and Ruairí Chada, while just a few hundred metres away Kathleen Chada was attempting to take in the enormity of her loss.

Many of them have never even jogged for fun — but now a group of teachers from a rural West Cork primary school are lacing up their running shoes to help pay for new classrooms.

Chloe Kelleher is hoping to have the recipe for success as she carries Irish hopes — and ingredients — into a major international cooking competition this weekend.

Plans have been lodged for a major extension at Kinsale Community School to cater for growing student numbers.

A “remarkable” teenage girl shot in the head by the Taliban is to undergo surgery for what doctors hope is the last time.

Students from disadvantaged communities will be left with the choice of emigration or the dole instead of increased job prospects because of a €12m budget cut, opposition parties have warned Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.