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  • War - What should we tell the children?

    HARD TRUTHS: The majority of children will not have failed to notice the war in Iraq. Some will be unconcerned, but others will be deeply affected. What can a parent do, asks Kathryn Holmquist p

  • Time to give them a sporting chance

    Sport is not for all, here it is for the few. Physical education is being squeezed out of the curriculum as we sit idly by and watch our children becoming unfitter than ever before. It's time to get up off our backsides writes Tom Humphries, Chief Sports Features Writer p
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  • Drowning in drink

    A few weeks ago this column told you about findings from the Rotunda Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) showing that women were arriving at the Dublin hospital with alcohol levels so high that the only other place such levels were ever seen was in the coroner's court. p

  • Keeping them amused

    There's always a problem of what to do with primary-school children on those annoying, rainy, teacher-training days when the children are a loose end and parents are forced to take days off work. p

  • Cherishing the individual

    ALL IN A DAY'S WORK: Valerie Monaghan, principal, St Ciaran's Special School, Glasnevin p

  • Teacher's PET

    An insider's guide to education p

  • Q&A

    A life of learning - your education questions answered p

  • CV

    Des Egan - Poet p
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