THE gender gap in exam performance continued this year as official figures show girls got significantly better grades in most Junior Certificate subjects.

IRELAND faces the danger of race riots like those which engulfed France two years ago if efforts to integrate immigrant families in schools are not hastened, an education expert said yesterday.

A new primary school run by the Catholic Church will open in west Dublin even though most pupils are likely to be non-Catholic, the Diocese confirmed today.

A DUBLIN primary school to open next year, operated by a Vocational Education Committee (VEC), could mark the first significant step in altering the Catholic church’s domination of primary education.