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GIVE ME A BREAK:THE PLAYGROUND of the internet sometimes causes our children distress, and we don’t need Microsoft, the National Centre for Technology in Education, the Garda Síochána, the PSNI and the Minister for Education and Science Batt O’Keeffe to tell us that, as they did yesterday. 

Microsoft has used Safer Internet Day to tell parents of the advantages of Internet Explorer 8 with the help of an alarming survey. While O’Keeffe has announced that internet safety is going to be part of the Junior Cert curriculum. Instructors are going into our schools today to tell 6,000 children of dangers they already know about.