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Primary School

    the mála
    17 milestones in every Irish primary school career
    13 Nov 2016
    5.9k
    Discrimination
    Parents awarded €9,000 after school refused their son's life-saving allergy medicine
    22 Oct 2016
    38.5k
    35
    In the classroom
    Union wants to address gender imbalance among Irish teachers
    10 Oct 2016
    17.7k
    56
    connected
    How Well Do You Remember These Alive-O Songs From Primary School?
    12 Sep 2016
    15.2k
    3
    constitutional law
    Religious education in schools: Two sets of rights in conflict
    1 Aug 2016
    21.3k
    122
    What Next?
    'It tends not to be prime property that's handed over': 8 schools opened in 3 years under divestment
    1 Aug 2016
    15.6k
    34
    cracking the code
    Kids may start learning how to code in primary school
    18 Jul 2016
    15.3k
    98
    The Daily Poll
    Poll: Should children learn coding in primary school?
    18 Jul 2016
    25.2k
    127
    Greenhills
    New Educate Together primary school to open in Dublin this September
    27 Jun 2016
    20.2k
    81
    hail to the bus driver
    12 things that happened on every Irish school tour bus
    21 May 2016
    11.1k
    3
    I Will Survive!
    Primary school teachers will identify with substitute's gas account of her day
    18 May 2016
    7.2k
    Nostalgia
    17 photos that will make any Irish school kid sick with 90s nostalgia
    9 Apr 2016
    12.9k
    3
    lamha trasna
    How Well Do You Remember Primary School Irish?
    1 Apr 2016
    20.8k
    9
    are you a fridget
    The 21 Most Triumphant Moments Of An Irish Childhood
    29 Mar 2016
    12.7k
    7
    uplifting
    An Antrim primary school sent this lovely letter to its students with their exam results
    2 Feb 2016
    5.7k
    2
    Primary School
    15 times you felt like an absolute badass in primary school
    24 Jan 2016
    11.9k
    1
    crisis point
    Primary teacher describes finding herself in cold house with no money for baby formula
    17 Dec 2015
    44.3k
    71
    lamha trasna
    How Well Do You Remember Primary School Irish?
    6 Sep 2015
    18.9k
    21
    baa baa baa
    7 Alive-O songs from primary school that are still absolute bangers
    3 Sep 2015
    45.8k
    15
    Quiz
    How Well Do You Know The Lyrics To Zacchaeus?
    1 Sep 2015
    8.8k
    12
    Opinion
    'My four year old is ready to start school, but am I?'
    Claire Micks
    30 Aug 2015
    527
    49
    brown paper
    8 things all Irish kids secretly loved about going back to school
    27 Aug 2015
    8.1k
    1
    bosca bruscair
    15 things everyone did in primary school
    3 Aug 2015
    15.2k
    3
    freestyle
    Those primary school recorder lessons might be useful after all
    16 Jul 2015
    3.4k
    1
    working through tragedy
    How do you talk to a child about death?
    22 May 2015
    7.9k
    12
    Art Attack
    10 questionable works of art every Irish person made in primary school
    2 Apr 2015
    33.2k
    3
    inclusion
    Catholic Church tells Irish schools how they should treat non-Catholics
    12 Mar 2015
    21.5k
    120
    Primary School
    Should two hours of PE a week be made compulsory for students?
    27 Jan 2015
    21.1k
    105
    Discrimination
    Teacher says nun asked "What about the homos?" during job interview
    19 Jan 2015
    55.5k
    111
    Shrewsbury
    Three arrested after woman's body found at UK primary school
    5 Jan 2015
    13.5k
    Property
    People will pay more to live near a school (regardless of how good it is)
    13 Nov 2014
    6.8k
    10
    school daze
    9 memories from the first day back to primary school
    28 Aug 2014
    19.1k
    17
    sniff sniff
    Primary school sends adorable letter to outgoing students
    15 Jul 2014
    14.5k
    1
    Educational Passport
    Here's the form children will be asked to fill out about their abilities as they enter secondary school
    17 Jun 2014
    18.0k
    24
    daniel who?
    Watch Irish schoolkids struggle to identify Daniel O'Donnell
    29 May 2014
    2.2k
    4
    hockey horrors
    11 reasons P.E. class was a legitimate form of torture
    21 May 2014
    34.5k
    32
    hulk smash
    Irish primary school kids hilariously discuss their ideal superpowers
    16 May 2014
    3.1k
    puppy love
    Irish school kids adorably describe what they think love is
    7 May 2014
    3.8k
    godlike
    Irish primary school students asked to identify President Higgins, hilarity ensues
    6 May 2014
    8.2k
    The Daily Poll
    Poll: Should Higher Level Maths be a requirement to become a primary school teacher?
    23 Apr 2014
    23.7k
    240
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