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Parents have expressed concern over draft proposals for the new Junior Cert curriculum – as it was today revealed that lessons about online pornography will be given to Irish secondary school students.

Perhaps the present heat – so bad that RTE news on Saturday night basically played the role of fun-spoiling teacher on a school tour, listing all the things viewers should not do in the good weather, before a final exhortation to “enjoy yourselves – has made us all forget it, but this past June was one of the wettest on record.

Three participants in the Pfizer Covid vaccine trial died shortly after vaccination and their deaths were not fully investigated, it has been revealed.

Hospital staff 'found retained tissue and said it had got its own blood supply," the woman revealed. 'The doctor said they were surprised I wasn't critically ill in hospital. It had just been left all that time; it could have caused sepsis.' 

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has put forward a proposal for the strengthening of ‘hate crime’ laws in Ireland.