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US president Joe Biden, standing alongside his wife Jill Biden, takes the oath of office. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA
Holy Joe – Frank McNally on more Biden relatives and lessons for the president from a seventh-century saint

When Joe Biden named his fellow Irish American Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor, he joked that the only downside of the appointment was that Walsh’s (...)

Institute of Education on Lower Leeson Street: 44 per cent of teachers’ estimated grades were lowered. This compares with a national average of 17 per cent. File photograph: Alan Betson
Calculated grades process: Agent of warped bias or great leveller?

After logging on to the Leaving Cert results website last week, Saoirse Corbett Fitzpatrick felt devastated. “My single focus for the last two years (...)