The Galway schools included in this round are Claddagh National School, Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh, Scoil Shéamais Naofa, Bearna ...

Of that €3.8 million, €1.8 million covers minor works grants, while Galway’s primary schools will share €1.2 million and post ...

Irish Sign Language Interpreter, Ela Cichocka with Mark Byrne, CEO Chime speaking at the official opening of Chime Dundalk Resource Centre. Photo: Aidan Dullaghan/Newspics Chime Chairperson, Tom ...

Currently there are more than 15,000 children waiting for an assessment of need, which is often a key requirement for children accessing certain services and supports. Under the law, children are ...

"Buttoned Up" is a new initiative to encourage a national conversation about menstrual health, aiming to dismantle taboos surrounding menstruation in schools across Ireland. Minister Hildegarde ...

President Catherine Connolly has appointed her first government minister, a week on from her inauguration. She presented Hildegarde Naughton with a ministerial seal of office at Áras an Uachtaráin on ...

The new Minister for Education, Hildegarde Naughton, has said she intends to “hit the ground running” in her new position. Speaking on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Ms Naughton said she was “deeply ...

There is one psychologist for every 4,600 pupils in schools in the Republic, which compares “poorly” to similar services internationally, Department of Education officials have told Minister ...

The Government is being urged to recognise foetal alcohol spectrum disorder as a disability by a support group which warns it is a silent epidemic “coming down the road at us fast and furiously”. In ...

Senator Mike Kennelly and his daughter, Cllr Aoife Kennelly pictured on the visit alongside Minister Naughton. Photos from the Minister’s visit last Thursday. There was a strong sense of pride and ...

Mr O’Gorman, speaking on RTE’s The Week In Politics, said this would “reverberate internationally” and that there is no reason why this can’t happen before the Dail’s summer recess “if there was the ...