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The Leaving Cert exams are just two weeks away and students are in the final stages of their preparation.

It was, and sometimes is still not, rarely acknowledged that it was the subs who had ultimate responsibility for what appeared on the printed page

Martin McLoone, who has died at 73, was a pioneering influence in media and film studies. Born in Derry on July 12, 1950, he attended St Columb’s, the Catholic boys’ grammar school there, before studying English and history at University College Dublin, where he graduated in 1973.

We round up some opinions on the finest reads this year which you might think worth bringing on holidays with you

The mercury is rising, there’s a grand stretch in the evenings, and to people of a certain age, this only means one thing: exam weather. For around 120,000 Irish schoolchildren, the final dastardly furlong is in sight, resulting in cramming, anxiety, and the thrum of low-level panic creeping in.

“HOW much do you make?” It was a question I was delighted to have put to me while taking part in the recent Careers Fair at the Edmund Rice Secondary School…