Teachers' leaders have warned that any plans to reopen primary schools in May or June would present "very particular challenges".
There has been a general welcome for the rethink on the Junior Cycle and the scrapping of the plan to run exams in the autumn. Instead, schools will have the freedom to run their own assessments before May 29.
Nine elderly patients have died of Covid-19 at a long-term care facility in West Cork where there has been an outbreak of the virus, the HSE has confirmed.
Following the birth of Boris Johnson's son, questions have been raised about whether the British prime minister will take any paternity leave amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was back at work at his Downing Street office after being present while his fiancée Carrie Symonds gave birth to their son, his political spokesman said yesterday.
If we thought the decision to impose a stay-at-home order was tough, then the options on how the coronavirus lockdown may be relaxed are proving much more agonising.
'Germany will never forget what you have done for us," is how then German chancellor Helmut Kohl described his feelings 30 years ago when talking to Taoiseach Charles Haughey at the end of a decisive Special European Council in Dublin. We gratefully remember the important role Ireland played in helping us to complete German unification...
