Faith schools are outperforming their secular counterparts at every level of education research has found.

A standin head teacher is being paid £30000 for two months work at a secondary school.

League tables for school tests taken by 14yearolds this summer will not be published it has emerged.

School pupils are being made drowsy and less attentive in lessons by new airconditioned "energy efficient" classrooms two separate studies have warned.

People with science degrees may be welcomed into the profession.

The Chancel of the Church of St Helena (above) was among the paintings found by volunteers at Yorkshire Museum. &#169 York Museums Trust

Leeds City Varieties Music Hall in Yorkshire (above) has won £2.7 million. Pic courtesy Leeds City Council

Average house prices in Ireland fell by 8.3% in the first 11 months of this year, according to the latest figures from the ESRI and Permanent TSB.

The chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank has tendered his resignation today due to the controversy over inappropriate loans given to the bank's chairman.

A drug addict who hijacked a woman's car at gunpoint and refused to allow her take her handbag from it before he drove off, has been given a seven years sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

The new series of TV adverts as part of the 'Crashed Lives' campaign was launched today by the RSA chairman Gay Byrne and TV presenter Miriam O'Callaghan.

An 18 year-old boy who fatally stabbed another teenager last year has been jailed for ten years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

Nearly €13m of taxpayer's money was paid out to political parties last year.

A former civil servant who downloaded child pornographic images described as "amongst the worst that have ever come before the courts" has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

Each inmate at Ireland's top security Portlaoise jail costs taxpayer's more than €250,000 a year, it was revealed today.

Murdered IRA victim Danny McIlhone will finally be laid to rest with his mother and father almost 30 years after his disappearance, his family said today.

Transport's carbon footprint is a major obstacle to achieving a sustainable, low-carbon economy in Europe. A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) urges policy makers to take a fresh approach to address the spiralling growth of transport, supporting

The National Bank upped the official hryvnia rate, set for December 15, by 1.37 kopecks to UAH 7.4731/USD. The National Bank set the official hryvnia rate versus foreign currencies at USD 100 - UAH 747,3100; EUR 100 - UAH 996,9115;

Head of the UkrSotsBank Board Borys Tymonkin believes that the national currency rate has actually stabilized and it will strengthen to UAH 7/USD in the nearest future, the banker told the Zerkalo Nedeli weekly in an interview, UKRINFORM reports. The