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Schools

Last month
March 2025
Galway-Tipperary showdown in store in Croke Cup final on St Patrick's Day
This year
2025
Garda investigating origin of 'hoax' threatening email that closed several schools in Co Clare
Hot school meals: They're so important, but we could be offering much better food
Dr Catherine Conlon
Experts hit out at 'ultra-processed' hot school meals ahead of scheme's expansion
Ireland has spent €86 million on prefabs for schools over the past three years
Schools, creches and universities to close during periods covered by Status Red warnings
Principals raise concerns over student use of addictive 'snus' nicotine pouches in schools
Government issues tender for controversial €9m mobile phone pouch contract
Status Orange warning 'doesn't change anything' for schools, as they continue to monitor risk
Tens of thousands affected by power and water outages as further snow-ice warnings in place
Counties in the south have been worst affected by the cold snap.
Last year
2024
Opinion: Our rules around seclusion and restraint in schools are failing children
Derval McDonagh
Debunked: Years-old headline used to suggest Taoiseach wants to bar unvaccinated kids from school
Niamh O'Reilly: Simon says Friday is a good day for an election. Good for whom, exactly?
Niamh O'Reilly
Parenting: Fire up the chopper, I think I'm a helicopter parent
Margaret Lynch
Foley denies misleading Dáil over encounter with phone pouch company executive
Norma Foley says there are enough special ed places for every child in Dublin 15 - but parents disagree
Two parents who sit on the Dublin 15 Taskforce, dispute the Minister’s claim.
How did no-one notice 8-year-old Kyran Durnin may have died up to two years ago?
Questions are being asked about how Kyran’s disappearance was not spotted by authorities.
Opinion: Government cannot delay when it comes to redress for school abuse survivors
Dr James Gallen
Taoiseach: 'If religious orders don’t do the right thing and pay redress, we'll legislate to make sure they do'
Opinion: The children of Dublin 8 deserve better than the school numbers on offer
Louise Fitzpatrick
Taoiseach accuses SF of 'hypocrisy' as phone pouch scheme already in place in Northern Ireland
Chambers defends €9m phone pouch spend as opposition ask minister 'are you for real?'
Teachers slam government for €9m spend on locking phones during school
New Labour Bill aims to ensure religious orders pay redress to victims of sexual abuse
Mary McAleese speaks out about 'state of terror' that children faced in schools in the past
Minister says portrayal of Irish family in now withdrawn SPHE book 'not the depiction we would want'
Opinion: Religious organisations, as well as the perpetrators, must be held to account for this abuse
Rachel Morrogh
'Pay up': New figures show religious orders only paid 16% of institutional redress costs
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The Explainer: How is Ireland still uncovering stories of widespread abuse?
We’re joined by Dr Joe Mooney, an assistant professor of social work at University College Dublin who has a specific focus on child protection, and our own News Correspondent Órla Ryan, who is also creator and presenter of the Redacted Lives documentary podcast series, which explored the stories of those who passed through mother and baby homes.
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How will the Commission into child abuse in schools work, and which schools will it cover?
And have lessons been learned from how previous inquiries were carried out?
Abuse survivors told scoping inquiry they believed paedophile rings operated at some schools
“The principal would open the door, see the abuse taking place, even rape in progress, and just close the door again.”
TUI president: It's time to put an end to the teacher retention and recruitment crisis
David Waters
Social media a “clear threat” to teenagers' mental health, say Irish doctors
Almost one-third of students feel they don't belong at school, says new report
Hundreds of primary principals decry changes to special education criteria in new petition
Primary principals criticise 'infuriating' shortage of supports for pupils affected by trauma
School psychology service 'unaccountable' and on verge of 'collapse', warns principal
The National Educational Psychology Services (NEPS) is down about 20% of required staff at present.
Sources with experience of the schools psychology service told of how barely a handful of students in each school can avail of the treatment.
One principal warned that the service's refusal to operate waiting lists means there is little data on how many students require intervention.
'You just know that if the child had been seen when they should have been seen in the first place, they wouldn't be in crisis,' Simon Lewis said.
Historic first Munster title for Kerry's Mercy Mounthawk, Naas reign in Leinster again
All time
Number of students at multi-denominational secondary schools exceeds Catholic schools for first time
Schools close early and clinics cancelled at Temple Street amid fears of unrest in central Dublin