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Alternatives to CAO: Can they be a good first choice – even for high-points students?

Once upon a time, going to college was the-be-all and end-all. What mattered was CAO points and the third-level college and course that a student got (...)

The school principal said the move was prompted by the school’s student council and had been agreed by the school’s board of management and parents. File photograph: iStock
Primary school to introduce gender neutral school uniform policy

A Co Wicklow primary school is introducing a new gender neutral school uniform policy which will allow boys to wear skirts or girls to wear trousers f(...)

Members of a group that calls itself the Fingal Battalion Direct Action Group were monitored outside the house by gardaí before dispersing. Photograph: Facebook
Protesters gather outside Simon Harris’s home again

Protesters gathered outside the home of Minister for Health Simon Harris for a number of hours in Greystones, Co Wicklow, on Sunday. Members of a gro(...)

A member of the group Fingal Battalion Direct Action reading out a statement at Paul Kehoe’s house on Sunday. Photograph: Facebook.
TD leaves Co Wexford home as anti-eviction group holds protest

Minister of State for Defence Paul Kehoe had to leave his family home with his wife and three children on Sunday as gardaí were called to de(...)

Irish artist Lisa McCleary’s Edging exhibition will run at Gallery MC, Manhattan, from April 29th
Young Irish artist Lisa McCleary to open New York solo exhibition

A 26-year-old Irish artist will open her first solo US exhibition at a gallery in New York at the end of this month. Lisa McCleary’s exhibition, Edg(...)

Drew Harris, the Garda Commissioner, said: ‘No form of intimidation outside the homes of elected officials or other public figures would be tolerated by gardaí.’ Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Name of Tom Oliver’s IRA killer no longer my information, says Harris

The name of the senior IRA member who ordered the murder of Louth farmer Tom Oliver was held by the PSNI and it was for that police force to decide wh(...)

Black Santa Sit Out at St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin. Lord Mayor Nial Ring with Nikolas Thornton, proudly showing off the Lord Mayor’s chain of office during the the Choir of Kildare Place National Schooll’s performance. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Church of Ireland will be ‘caught’ if hard border introduced, says Archbishop

The Church of Ireland will be “quite significantly caught” in the effects of any hard border, Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson has said. “Having (...)

Enrolment policies at St Patrick’s National School, Church Road, Greystones, have stirred controversy locally. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Archdeacon banned from taking part in services over comments on school-admissions row

A retired Church of Ireland archdeacon has been barred from taking part in church services by the Archbishop of Dublin for six months after speaking o(...)

Flecha Negra: Ronan McKenna’s five-bedroom Andalusian villa
Building the dream villa in Spain: ‘There’s a tax for every brick you plan to lay’

“I think I’m suffering from some form of housebuilding PTSD,” Ronan McKenna exclaims, referring to the toll that building two villas in 18 months on S(...)

‘The relationship of the Church of Ireland with the totality of Irish history and culture . . . can only become more complex as we approach the commemoration of 150 years of Disestablishment,” Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson has said. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Being Anglican in Ireland can only become more difficult due to Brexit says Archbishop

Members of the Church of Ireland must address their identity as Irish Anglicans, Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson has said. “The relationship of(...)

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