Newpark Comprehensive School
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Life as a school nurse: ‘You never know what’s going to come in the door next’
- Parenting
- November 11, 2020, 06:01
“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 (...)

Four new post-primary schools to be established next September
- Education
- October 16, 2020, 16:47
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 (...)

Young Reducers win overall environmentalist award
- Environment
- May 21, 2020, 16:16
Students at Davis College, Mallow, Co Cork, who created a YouTube video on reducing plastic pollution and addressing climate change have won the main (...)

Schoolchildren to stage second strike in call for Government action on climate
- Environment
- May 23, 2019, 17:49
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(...)

Irish schools are going plastic-free - but are parents ready?
- Education
- April 2, 2019, 00:00
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(...)

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 (...)

Government buys Blackrock period house for €8m
- Commercial Property
- November 14, 2018, 06:00
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(...)

Moving from primary to secondary school: a parent’s survival guide
- Parenting
- August 22, 2016, 10:00
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(...)

Irish Women of the World: Samantha Power and more political powerhouses
- People
- March 8, 2016, 05:45
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
- Religion & Beliefs
- February 27, 2016, 00:00
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(...)