Prisoner literacy: ‘I wrote to my girlfriend. She wrote back and I could read it’
A peer-to-peer literacy programme in Portlaoise Prison is proving a huge success
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Pandemic demonstrates possibilities for school communities to remodel the system
Why we need ‘community philosophy’
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Inner-city Dublin teenagers and boys from Blackrock College meet every week to make music and gain a greater understanding of each other’s lives
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‘On current projections we are heading for the worst of both worlds in the next Dáil: a populist government and a populist opposition’
Galway pupils honour trials faced by Mediterranean migrants
Afri event also marks publication of mini-plays on global justice themes
Minister urges teachers to attend junior cycle training despite unions’ order
TUI praises Jan O’Sullivan for making ‘a fairly good attempt’ to resolve dispute
School is responsible for ruining my brain
Opinion: The Irish education system convinced me at a young age never to think for myself
In Ireland both men and women are down-graded, ridiculed, put down
Fears that this is developing into a valueless society
Is the Irish media devoid of intellectual depth?
‘We need to see that there are different ways of looking at the world to that served to us by the mass media, which is necessarily pretty banal,’ argues Desmond Fennell
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