PJ Mara was the most famous political spin doctor in modern Irish history, having played a leading role in Fianna Fáil for more than 30 years.

It was a champagne day for the people of a north Cork town in more ways than one.

Students from Co Clare who worked to raise awareness among teenagers on how to stay safe online were yesterday named the Young Social Innovators of the Year 2014.

A BANK branch which was bought as a sale and leaseback investment for €6.5m by businessman and developer David Dwyer is back on the market, for €1.4m.

The offertory gifts were the essential tools of any 19-year-old woman — lip gloss, mobile phone and an iPod.

A small, close-knit community was plunged into grief yesterday evening after news filtered out that Niamh McCarthy had died at Kerry General Hospital in Tralee.

CRIES of sorrow were heard during the funeral Mass of fatal hit-and-run victim Conor Hickey in Cabra, Co Dublin yesterday.

A TEENAGER who developed software that tracks the movement of a tennis player has won the top prize in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

A SCHOOL principal has urged his pupils to report boy-racers to the gardaí, even if they happen to be fellow students.

PRIMARY pupils are to be taught about the danger of talking to strangers on the internet in the same classes that tell them not to talk to someone who approaches them on the street.

TRANSITION year students came up with a festive idea for their mini-company – they’ve reared turkeys for Christmas.

THE spread of swine flu in a Donegal Gaeltacht area has forced the closure of a second school, as teachers struggled to cope with the number of sick pupils.

Youngsters attending two more Irish colleges in the north-west were tonight awaiting results of swine flu tests.

Almost 300 students have been sent home from an Irish language college in Donegal because of an outbreak of swine flu.

THE consultants who cleared the Marino Institute of Education (MIE) of bullying and financial irregularities raised serious questions about financial procedures in their report to the Christian Brothers trustees.

ANOTHER resignation has been handed in at the troubled teacher training college at Marino Institute of Education (MIE) in Dublin.

A COLLEGE embroiled in controversy over alleged bullying and financial mismanagement has been given a clean bill of health by its own consultants.

A REPORT into allegations of financial irregularities at the Marino Institute of Education (MIE) in Dublin has found no evidence of any misuse of public funds.

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Plans to move the Abbey Theatre to Dublin's Parnell Square have stalled.