Irish secondary schools are among the most socially integrated in Europe when it comes to reading literacy, according to a new cross-country comparative study led by a sociologist at Trinity ...

THE NUMBER OF secondary school pupils given an exemption from studying Irish last year was almost double the number granted an exemption before the pandemic. Figures obtained by The Journal under ...

Secondary schools need to “step up” and offer autism spaces for children, Taoiseach Simon Harris has warned. The Fine Gael leader said that schools cannot be allowed to delay adding autism ...

Over the 2021/22 and 2022/23 academic years, school attendance rates in Northern Ireland fell to their worst levels on record. The BBC reports that about 30% of pupils across each of the two ...

From RTÉ Radio 1's Colm Ó Mongáin Show, Craig Petrie, principal of East Glendalough School in Co Wicklow, on why exemptions for study of Irish at second level are on the rise ...

Secondary schools will close for the week from February 17, 2025 until February 21, 2025. Schools will shut again on Monday March 17, 2025 for the St Patrick's Day public holiday.

Irish Teacher: My son starts secondary school in September - where I'm teaching "In some ways, I wish he wasn’t coming to my school but it’s the only multi-denominational mixed secondary near us." ...