Centre cannot hold as Mayo football beset by turbulent times

Unseemly end to Rochford’s reign while bitter Carnacon row doesn’t augur well

First quarter of 2017 not as difficult as feared for Irish firms

Business sentiment index shows improving mood, though Brexit worries remain

Irish business confidence lowest in three and a half years

Expectations ‘clearly scaled back’ after Brexit vote, index indicates

Business sentiment index hits nine-year high as activity picks up

Latest survey suggests more companies reporting output gains than at any other time

Business sentiment at highest level since 2006

60 per cent of firms reporting an increase in business activity over the summer months

A mature student on Leaving Cert maths. ‘What if I failed?’ wonders Pat Costello

Improvements in sentiment on ‘pause’ in second quarter

Index points to need for consumer spending to ‘catch up’ with company confidence

Fifty years on and I have given in again to my attraction to maths

After falling love with maths again, Pat Costello spent the winter fully dressed in bed with a hot water bottle and a maths book – and sat Leaving Cert maths this week

Education People: Taking up maths, after half a century

When she retired Pat Costello gave herself the challenge of learning the most feared subject in the curriculum – maths

Employment activity on the up - survey

Lay-offs down but emigration poses problem