Higher proportion detained on longer sentences for offences such as murder

Jamie O’Connell: ‘I am still untangling the black roots of self-hatred imposed on me’

Microsoft Airband successfully trialled in Co Cavan

Now is the time to review your CAO course selection in order to get them right by the July 1st deadline.

We have here a real opportunity to conduct proper reform

Court heard man threw garden equipment out of stolen car windows as gardaí followed

Joint call made for pause to process pending analysis of recent junior cycle changes

Questions to help determine your career path

A further 13 deaths and 1,985 additional coronavirus infections registered in North

Infomar project, to be completed by 2026, will help predict impact of storms and floods

Covid-19 will place further challenges but we will keep on giving. It’s in our nature

Practical, hands-on courses offer career progression and skills enhancement outside the traditional CAO system

Controversy in Scotland after government reverses the downgrading of 124,000 students’ calculated grades

Recognising what happened in Scotland ‘may cause anxiety for Irish students’

Almost a third of youths in the north Co Dublin children’s detention centre had lost one or both of their parents

Archbishop Martin says recognition exists that needs of Catholic Church different to those of smaller denominations

Hottest day of the year to date brings large crowds to the capital’s beaches

Ask Brian: Junior Cycle is minimum entry requirements for many apprenticeships

Coláiste Bhaile Chláir says students will be graded by teachers as tests in new term too stressful

Q&A: What are the numbers? How are restrictions enforced? How does the virus spread?

We invited Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate students to share their thoughts with us about how their preparations have been impacted by the pandemic.

Can you put the facts about yourself together to see what picture may emerge?

Third years are preparing for the first-ever exams in a range of subjects so why are we only seeing the first sample papers now?

Boys will likely do their Junior Cert there, it’s less common for detainees to sit Leaving Cert

Students at Coláiste Lú unit say reduction in teaching through Irish has affected exam preparation

Youth stole mother’s car and was pursued, finally colliding with armed response vehicle

Practical, hands-on courses offer career progression and skills enhancement outside the traditional CAO system

Third-level is not the only option after the Leaving Cert – there are other opportunities out there

Smart Money: Going to a fee-paying school does not guarantee the best education

AstroLands will stage space camps and workshops

Last chance for students to change your minds and check course choices are correct

Leo Varadkar says the extension of provision for Leaving Cert pupils would be ‘sensible’

Candidates asked to comment on CSPE being examined in the Junior Cert for the last time

Concern that some questions on higher level paper were not harder than ordinary level

Brian Mooney on how to approach the CAO process and get your course choice right

Education authorities struggling to recruit teachers to correct Junior and Leaving Cert

Final decision rests with Minister for Education

Richard Bruton says there are strong calls for a change in the way the exams are structured

Minister for Education Joe McHugh is considering reinstating history as a core subject. Two education observers offer the case for and against

55% decrease in civil and building engineering graduates over the last five years