Vivienne Clarke
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âHarmony and happinessâ broken by workplace deaths of father and daughter, funeral told (opens the original)
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The âjigsaw puzzle of lifeâ was beginning to come together for a father and daughter in Banagher, Co Offaly, before their deaths in a workplace incident, their funeral heard. Last Monday, Mihai Chinez (49) and Denisa Mihaela Chinez (24), along with Mihaiâs wife Angela and Denisaâs boyfriend Liviu Blaj, had woken early to go to work at Banagher Precast Concrete, parish priest Fr Patrick Kiernan told the congregation. But within hours everything had âchanged, changed utterlyâ. He descr
Social media exclusion unfair to children, says rapporteur (opens the original)
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The Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, Aisling Parkes, has warned that introducing an age limit at which children can set up their own social media accounts carries the risk of blocking young people from having an input and restricts freedom of expression. According to international obligations, under the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the recommendation was that âwe take an individualistic approach to children, that we shouldnât be introducing age limits for listening to childre
Aoibhinn Nà Shúilleabháin quits Leaving Cert maths reform group after concerns âignoredâ (opens the original)
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A member of a group tasked with reforming Leaving Certificate maths courses has said she resigned because she did not want to be associated with draft courses that were âincoherent and mathematically inaccurateâ. Aoibhinn Nà Shúilleabháin, associate professor of mathematics education at DCU, resigned in June from the Mathematics Development Group, which advises the National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NCCA). She said she believed the draft specifications for the new courses being p
Public sector workersâ strike vote is no bluff, union says (opens the original)
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Siptu has denied that the threat of industrial action in advance of public sector pay talks was posturing or bluffing. The union, which is the countryâs second largest organiser of public sector workers with about 75,000 members, said on Monday that 97 per cent of those who participated in a ballot voted in support of strike action in a dispute over a new national pay deal. The previous public sector pay deal expired at the end of June. Speaking on RTÃ radioâs Morning Ireland, the unionâs
Praise for Dolly Partonâs work bringing love of books to children in Ireland (opens the original)
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Tributes have poured in recognising country singer Dolly Partonâs decades-long charitable work in literacy and education, including distributing thousands of books in Ireland. The superstar, who died on Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 80, was world-famous for her genre-defining hits including 9 To 5, I Will Always Love You, and Jolene. But she was also lauded for her extensive philanthropic work on literacy through organisations such as the Dollywood Foundation and Dolly Partonâs Imagi
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