The Irish Times Women’s Podcast named Best New Podcast 2015 by iTunes
Launched in September, The Women’s Podcast aimed to fill a gap in broadcasting
Start-up Night Belfast: “Think hard before you jump in”
Event featured talks from founders of Nueda and ShredBank
Life after the Leaving: ‘I wasn’t thinking about a job when filling out the CAO’
Danielle Connolly is happy she chose to study culinary arts
Life after the Leaving: ‘I’m getting the whole college experience’
Patrick Canning has no regrets about picking medicine
Software that helps to keep first-year students on track
All colleges help first-year students adapt, so they don’t get overwhelmed or drop out. A novel project at DCU uses data to predict performance and sends students helpful weekly emails
Life after the Leaving: ‘If you don’t know what you want to do now, that’s okay’
Michelle Farrelly took a circuitous route to her degree
Points for culinary arts drop, but rise for agriculture courses
Points were also down for subjects related to other booming industries, including tourism
Life after the Leaving: ‘Going abroad to study has been insanely empowering’
Molly Fitzmaurice turned down Trinity offers in favour of the University of Amsterdam
Life after the Leaving: ‘Having a beautiful son delayed my education’
When Bernadette Clear sat the exams, she didn’t know she was pregnant
After the Leaving Cert, what happens to your exam scripts?
The past few weeks have seen a monster countrywide exam-correcting blitz, so why does it take so long to get the results?
Big surprises in Junior Cert technical graphics and materials technology papers
Bar set too high in ordinary level, and higher paper was easier, says teacher
Leaving Cert accounting: unpredictable questions may have fazed students
Some questions had pieces that would require careful handling by students
Leaving Cert physics and physics & chemistry
Students who get an A in this tough but fair physics paper will really deserve it, says teacher
Second AIB Start-up Academy kicks off in Dublin
Brody Sweeney and David McKernan on the ups and downs of entrepreneurship
Swim for a Mile: Final wraps up week of swim challenge events
Irish Times journalists participate in charity challenge at National Aquatic Centre
Children have right to a mother and father, ‘No vote’ event told
UCD seminar looks at marriage referendum from perspective of rights of the child
Postgrad profile: Angela McDonagh (MFA)
‘Most artists just love what they do, and that’s the thing that keeps you going’
Multicultural Adamstown school ‘very proud to be inclusive’
Students of St John the Evangelist National School come from all over the world, from different backgrounds and religions
How Innocence Project got justice for man hanged 75 years ago
Justice for Harry Gleeson Group worked for 2½ years to have him pardoned
Transition year students ‘impressed’ and ‘shocked’ by live Caesarean section
Live birth part of MiniMed School for TY pupils at RCSI and Beaumont Hospital
NCT provides 200 free tests due to waiting times
Free test provided if no appointments within four weeks
The business of selling a client’s one clear message more effectively
Small Business - Future ProofDarren Doyle, owner and creative director Studio93
In the pink: what Web Summit volunteers think
‘I had a few lectures today but when I was signing up for this I thought, in three years’ time, I’m going to remember the Web Summit. I won’t remember the lectures’
Teams with women work better, forum hears
‘I will never again attend a women-in-leadership training session. I am a leader.’
Belfast sets stage for Web Summit
150 global start-ups attend ‘warm-up’ before heading to Dublin event
Giraffe creche worker denies charges of wilful neglect
Joanna Witkowska (34) charged after two toddlers left premises through open gate and found beside a stream
Going out: something for the weekend
Wexford Fringe offers eclectic mix of cabaret, comedy, circus, dance, film and visual arts
Ibec, Siptu chiefs predict wage pressure
McCoy expects possible renegotiation of the Haddington Road Agreement
Two teenagers due in court over Galway stabbing
Incident took place in laneway beside Salthill’s Knocknacarra Church at 3am on Saturday
Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy is One City, One Book selection
Festival encourages reading of book connected to Dublin in April of each year
Rapid uptake as 23,000 accept CAO offers on first day
O’Sullivan questions need for large number of courses offered by third level institutions
What’s on for the weekend
A bunch of Roses, the Fleadh, arts galore in Kilkenny and Tolkien events - it’s all there
Driver injures garda and flees on foot in Dublin city centre
Car travelling in wrong direction on College Street collided with Dublin Bus
Gas leak ruled out in manhole cover explosion in Dublin
‘Toxic-smelling’ thick green smoke seen before explosion near Government buildings
Englishman (79) searches for long lost Irish love
Michael Freer met Bridie Fortune at dance in Dublin over 50 years ago
Missing emu was stolen, Carlow wildlife park owner says
Gardaí investigate mysterious disappearance of flightless bird
Molly Malone statue unveiled at new temporary home
Fishmonger to wheel her barrow in front of Saint Andrew’s Church tourist office until 2017
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