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School choice can save our children and our cities (IrishCentral)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:46:10 PST

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Chicago Mayor calls teacher strike one of choice-When is it time for parents and children to get a choice? (IrishCentral)

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:32:20 PDT

Jimmy Kimmel pranks children with embarrassing ‘back to school’ outfits - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:50:14 PDT

By: MICHELLE K. SMITH

The family collection of bad photos just got a little bigger. In a prank, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel asked parents to dress their kids in uncool or embarrassing back to school outfits and film the children’s reaction. He showed some of videos on Wednesday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.

Bronx Ancient Order of the Hibernians awards scholarships to Irish Catholic high school children (IrishCentral)

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:34:22 PDT

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At graduation ceremonies held at eight different Catholic elementary schools in the East Bronx last weekend, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division 3 in the Bronx awarded $2,000 in scholarship funds to young Irish Catholic men and women which will be used to reduce the cost of tuition at Catholic high schools.

Irish children set to be weighed in school in effort to combat obesity - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:27:07 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

The Irish Medical Organization (IMO) has revealed a proposal to weigh children on their first day of school in an attempt to combat Ireland’s rising obesity epidemic.

Sweet Adam Sandler charms Irish school children (IrishCentral)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:30:37 PST

Funnyman Adam Sandler has some new Irish BFFs Adam Sandler has a bunch of new BFFs in Co Kildare thanks to his embrace of some schoolchildren who wrote him a fan letter that he personally took the time to respond toIt’s not easy getting a mega-star like Sandler to read fan mail, but kids from the Shanganamore national school in Athy, Co Kildare had a magic connection – their teacher’s aunt is a friend of Sandler’s mother READ MORE

Home is where the mortgage is (IrishCentral)

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:35:03 PDT

Robert Marsh recently evicted from his home by Start Mortgages Photo:Leon Farrell/Photocall IrelandOne of the first poems Irish children of my generation learned in school was Padraic Colum's “An Old Woman of the Roads” It's a simple but moving poem in the voice of an old tinker woman who is tired of living on the lonely roadsides in the wind and the rainShe longs for a little place of her own so she can be dry and warm READ MORE

John Barry-An American Hero in the Age of Sail by Tim McGrath (IrishCentral)

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:50:12 PDT

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Ireland's denominational schools may breach children's human rights (IrishCentral)

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:33:38 PST

By: DARA KELLY

The time has come to address the central role of religion in schools, the Irish government has been told. In a discussion paper presented by the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHCR) this week ministers were told that the religious ethos of most Irish schools may be a breach of the human rights of some children.