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David Robert Grimes: Young people need fact-based education. Learning about sex from pornography is like learning about police work from Die Hard

There aren’t many authors who can claim to have eight top selling books to their name, but that’s exactly what Tullyallen brothers Jake (11) and Finn (15) Ronan have under their joint belts.

There aren’t many authors who can claim to have eight top selling books to their name, but that’s exactly what Tullyallen brothers Jake (11) and Finn (15) Ronan have under their joint belts.

Mourners young and old wearing green and white Portlaoise GAA jerseys filled SS Peter and Pauls church, spilling out into the sunlit grounds last Friday April ...

Library staff have recently been issued guidelines on how to deal with protesters targeting and sometimes removing LGBTQ+ books aimed at children and young people. But in our world of social media and Pornhub and Netflix and the whole world wide web in our teenagers’ pockets, banning or censoring books is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

A Portlaoise teenagers death has devastated his family, friends and community, with tributes pouring in. David Brown lost his life tragically in a quad bike in...

A former heroin addict who is now a doctor of neuroscience is leading a programme aimed at helping students cope with life and realise their potential in school.

Groups with official-sounding names have alleged certain books violate child protection legislation and are on a mission to scaremonger, misinform, and mislead

One of the first married Laois women to enter the Rose of Tralee festival is Raheen lady Stephanie Quinlivan. The festival removed its rule of being single in 2...

Cork woman Gwen Healy tells CHRIS DUNNE about her own experience with Cystic Fibrosis, and why she has now set to support others with the illness