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Teachers across Northern Ireland are taking part in historic and unprecedented strike action over pay and conditions.

Thousands of teachers supported by health workers gathered for a half day of strike action and warned the Government - ‘this is just the start’.

A school principal has hit out at the Education Authority (EA) after it advertised for a budgetary control officer on a salary of up to £61,000 a year at a time when a freeze has been placed on the recruitment of school crossing patrol positions.

A school principal has hit out at the Education Authority (EA) after it advertised for a budgetary control officer on a salary of up to £61,000 a year at a time when a freeze has been placed on the recruitment of school crossing patrol positions.

They were violent and baffling crimes that, even amid the seemingly ceaseless course of shootings and bombings, shook the Cookstown area.

It’s a tall tale that has spanned centuries, but not all stories have a happy ending. That depends on where they end.

A north Down nursery school has apologised to the mother of a Down’s syndrome child who was forced to miss 15 minutes of class every day.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. And even when there is vision, if there is no-one leading, then that hope is in danger of being lost.

The Education Authority (EA) has been asked to model cuts of up to 10% for 2023/24.

An Irish Goodbye will say a big ‘hi y’all’ to Hollywood after the Northern Ireland short film received an Oscar nomination to join an Irish invasion at the annual celebration of cinema in March.