Paul Keenan
Proper investment in primary schools could result in systemic change in education and lead to a situation where prisons in Ireland would close, according to a school principal who has effected dramatic change in her school through music.
Speaking during Catholic Schools Week, Sr Bernadette Sweeney, principal of St Agnes' primary school in Crumlin, Dublin, and co-founder of a project to give violin tuition to all her students under the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools programme, said systematic changes and investment in education are key to the future of education.
''We've become so tied up with institutions,'' Sr Bernadette said. ''But it is important to know what we want from our education system. Isn't it producing children who have self-e...














The campaign to legalise assisted dying is gathering momentum in Britain, and it is stirring in Ireland. Terry Pratchett, the famous author afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, has suggested that there should be a tribunal to give people permission to help their loved ones to commit suicide.
The sad cases of two mothers: one of whom acted to bring about the death of her son who had been seriously injured when he fell from a moving ambulance, and the other who did...