45+ min ago   (1138+ words) Did you ever feel that something was just “off” with a colleague, a team or with your boss? Were you the first to realise that lay-offs were about to happen – without any solid facts to support it – or that Sorcha…...

16+ hour, 49+ min ago   (267+ words) Participation in the Gaisce Award, also known as the President’s Award, has reached a record level of nearly 30,000. According to the organisation’s latest annual report for 2025, 29,299 young people registered for the award during the year, while 17,641 completed it. The President’s…...

19+ hour, 24+ min ago   (199+ words) More than half of primary school pupils and two-thirds of secondary students refused to go to school at least once last year for reasons including anxiety, difficulties engaging with lessons and problems with friendships, according to a new study. The…...

1+ day, 49+ min ago   (512+ words) Burnout and longer working lives are increasingly prompting experienced professionals in their 30s and 40s to switch careers, according to Matrix Recruitment. The recruitment firm says there is a “growing trend” of professionals aged 30 and over, particularly women, seeking new career paths....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (603+ words) More than half of primary school pupils and two-thirds of secondary students refused to go to school at least once last year for reasons including anxiety, difficulties engaging with lessons and problems with friendships, according to a new study. The…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (510+ words) “Only a few of my friends have jobs,” says 19-year-old David Moran, from the Oliver Bond estate in Dublin’s south inner city. He mentions one who is working as a barber then pauses briefly and laughs a little as he…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (632+ words) It was back to school this week for French second-level students, but with a difference: a national ban on mobile phones. The ban in lycées, attended by students aged 15-18, means that phones are now banned throughout France’s preschool, primary and…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (532+ words) A commitment by Government to taking over the payment of wages in the childcare sector would reduce average weekly fees for parents from €200 to €56 and help address the sector’s staffing crisis, a coalition of campaign groups has said. Members of…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (544+ words) A prominent member of the group tasked with reforming Leaving Certificate maths courses has said she resigned from the body because she did not want to be associated with draft courses that were “incoherent and mathematically inaccurate”. Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin,…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (507+ words) The number of young people in work remains well below pre-economic crash levels and a growing number are in jobs that do not pay well enough to allow them to live independently as adults, according to a new report by…...