The public opinion war over Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s plan to abolish the Junior Certificate stepped up a gear as teachers took to school gates airing their fears for the impact on education standards.

Four second-level students will be walking the Great Wall and speaking the native tongue in China over the next fortnight.

THE announcement that a new all-Irish, second-level school is to open in Carrigaline, Co Cork, in 2014 has been welcomed by county councillors.

SPARE a thought for a candidate who gets up a 6am six days a week to drive 310km to and from work who then has to trudge out into the night to knock on doors.

SHANE QUINN is set to continue his amazing streak of victories when he contests the intermediate 3,000m at the Irish Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore this morning.

MOBILE phone mast protestors were criticised yesterday for targeting worshippers at a Church of Ireland Sunday service.

ADRIGOLE village is dominated by the 685m high Hungry Hill mountain deep in the Beara peninsula, but, this season after seven attempts, the parish’s football team scaled another peak.