April is autism awareness month. It’s a noble idea but, unfortunately, many Irish children already live in a country that is well aware of their additional needs but still fails to respond to them.
Educate Together, the multi-denominational school group, has been plunged into an antisemitism row over fears Jewish children are being marginalised by what their parents claim is a pro-Palestinian bias.
Nineteen years ago today, Emer O’Loughlin, a 23-year-old artist, died in a mobile home fire near Gort, Co Galway. Emer was studying art in Galway and was living with her boyfriend in a mobile home in Ballybornagh.