Newpark Comprehensive School

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Beverley Callender has been a nurse at Villiers School in Limerick for the past 14 years. Photograph: Diarmuid Greene
Life as a school nurse: ‘You never know what’s going to come in the door next’

“It’s a bit of an enigma being a school nurse,” says Valerie Pedlow about a job she has worked in for almost 30 years, currently at Wesley College in (...)

The south county Dublin school site includes a two-storey period house, known as Abilene, which was owned for almost 80 years by the prominent Findlater business family.
Four new post-primary schools to be established next September

A 1,000-pupil secondary school for south county Dublin, is one of four new post-primary schools to be established in September next year to keep pace (...)

The Young Reducers made the video to get support for a ban on single-use plastics in their school
Young Reducers win overall environmentalist award

Students at Davis College, Mallow, Co Cork, who created a YouTube video on reducing plastic pollution and addressing climate change have won the main (...)

A student at the March for Climate Change which went throught Dublin from St Stephen’s Green to Leinster House in March. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
Schoolchildren to stage second strike in call for Government action on climate

The Government may have backed the declaration of a national “climate and biodiversity crisis”, but it has yet to take necessary action to counter the(...)

Bethan O’Riordan with her children Finlay (7) and Ruby (6) in Whitechurch, Co Cork. Photograph: Daragh McSweeney/Provision
Irish schools are going plastic-free - but are parents ready?

Ham or cheese? Fruit or vegetables? Sandwich or wrap? It can be tricky deciding what to put in a lunch box. But many parents will be faced making yet(...)

Students for Schools Striking 4 Climate at the Leinster House. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
School students lay out climate demands in Leinster House

A group of secondary school students embarking on a national climate strike on March 15th have set out a series of initial demands – all of which are (...)

The property fronts on to the same road as Newpark Comprehensive School, but when redeveloped will not apparently be linked to the existing school.
Government buys Blackrock period house for €8m

The Department of Education has outbid several housebuilders to gain control of a large period house and nearly 3 acres of development land off Newtow(...)

Jenny and Aidan McCabe with their 12-year-old daughter Sophie, who will be starting at Carrick-on-Shannon Community School, Co Leitrim. Photograph: James Connolly
Moving from primary to secondary school: a parent’s survival guide

Next week about 64,000 children in the Republic will embark on one of life’s significant transitions – the start of secondary school. After eight yea(...)

Collaboration and empathy: Geraldine Byrne Nason, Samantha Power, Sonya Hyland, Patricia O’Brien and Barbara Jones
Irish Women of the World: Samantha Power and more political powerhouses

Samantha Power US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was born in London to Irish parents and(...)

Church of Ireland notes

The spring issue of the Church of Ireland journal, Search, edited by Canon Ginnie Kennerley, will be available this weekend. An excerpt from the late(...)

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