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Twelve big ideas for the future of education The Government has pledged to establish a citizens’ assembly to reform the education system – but what issues should we address? We asked a dozen public figures in the arts, media, business and education for their views about 3 hours ago   It’s just a single line in the programme for government – but it has the potential to revitalise education for the 21st century. “We will establish a Citizens’ Assembly on the Future of Education ensuring that the voices of young people and those being educated are central,” it states. If Covid-19...

Counsel says teen happy to wear a face mask during pandemic as it covers up injuries

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Firm Wants To Arbitrate Fired Atty's Bias Claims Law360 (May 5, 2021, 10:29 PM EDT) -- A Maine-based law firm facing claims that it discriminated against and ultimately fired an attorney because he wanted to spend time with his newborn children has urged a Massachusetts federal court to toss the case and compel arbitration, asserting that the lawyer signed off on the process when he was hired. Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Chtd. LLP told the District of Massachusetts on Tuesday that because Bryan O'Brien agreed to refer any dispute with his employer to mediatio...

Uniform gardaí will serve as a high-visibility front line on the streets, with the Garda helicopter monitoring how crowds were building and moving in and around Dublin city centre. There was no specific intelligence to suggest that violence was being planned and it was hoped that events would pass off peacefully. Hosting parties Gardaí have also urged people to desist from hosting or attending parties or other social gatherings amid concerns about the slow rate of decline in Covid-19 cases despite a lengthy lockdown. Deputy Garda Commissioner Anne Marie McMahon, who is in charge of poli...

Print media O’Brien’s sortie into print media, via a near 30 per cent stake in Independent News & Media (INM), beginning in 2006, also left him nursing substantial losses, reported to be about €500 million by the time he exited two years ago. He succeeded in wresting control of the media group from Sir Anthony O’Reilly and his family but did so at the worst possible time, with the State in the middle of the troika bailout and print media being disrupted by digital and new media. Denis O’Brien will now have more time to focus on Digicel, his Caribbean telecoms busin...