Category: Education
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Current Educational System is Failing Autistic Children – Lowry
‘The current System is failing Autistic children’ said Deputy Michael Lowry when he addressed the transition from Primary to Secondary school during Promised Legislation in the Dail this week. ‘The educational needs of children is something every parent takes very seriously. This is particularly so where a child has additional needs. ‘Across Tipperary, there are…
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Our Lady’s Secondary School Templemore Proceeding to Construction – Cahill
Our Lady’s Secondary School in Templemore has received permission to proceed to construction from Minister Norma Foley, local Fianna Fáil T.D. for Tipperary, Jackie Cahill confirmed today. This approval allows the school to proceed with the demolition of an old, existing building to be replaced with a new building, inclusive of two new classrooms as…
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Student Accommodation – Housing for All
The Government’s flagship housing policy, Housing for All, launched last month by Minister Darragh O’Brien will be of benefit in providing student accommodation in Tipperary, according to local T.D. Jackie Cahill. The comprehensive and ambitious state housing policy also contains plans to allow Technological Universities to borrow from the Housing Finance Agency in order to…
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Tipperary Schools Invited To Compete For ‘Ireland’s Fittest’ Title
A call has gone out to schools in Tipperary, and elsewhere across the country, from sprinter Phil Healy and fellow athlete, David Gillick, who have joined forces with Fyffes in a quest to find ‘Ireland’s Fittest School’. Together, the Irish Olympians have recorded a series of workouts that they say are ‘fit for even the…
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New website launched to help Tipperary children and young people connect with the services they need
New Initiatives launched today include a new website, a child and youth participation guide, and a survey of supports and services for children with additional needs in Tipperary 29th of September, 2021: Tipperary Children and Young People’s Service Committee (CYPSC) has today announced the launch of three new initiatives for children and young people in…
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“Honour your commitment to double investment” – Early Childhood Ireland calls for a roadmap to reform
Families and childcare providers in Tipperary need to see leadership from their elected representatives, they need to see that politicians are taking the childcare investment crisis seriously. That’s the message Early Childhood Ireland, the leading organisation in the early years sector, is sending to Tipperary TDs today (15.09.21) as they return to Dáil Eireann following the summer…
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Tipperary Students Win Top Prizes In Texaco Children’s Art Competition
Five Tipperary students have won top prizes in this year’s 67th Texaco Children’s Art Competition, the results of which were delayed until now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 12-13 years age category, Ailbhe Treacy (12), a pupil at Lissenhall National School, Nenagh, won second prize for her artwork entitled ‘Life Going On’. In…
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Cahill Secures 22 Additional School Bus Spaces for Kilcommon/Upperchurch Route
The Minister for Education, Norma Foley has informed local TD, Jackie Cahill, that an additional 22 bus school bus spaces will be made available for secondary school students on the Kilcommon/Upperchurch to Thurles school bus route. Cahill received this positive news for local families this afternoon following extensive lobbying and questioning of the Department of…
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€5.9m in Transformation Funding for new Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS) – Ahearn
Senator Garret Ahearn has welcomed almost 6 million in funding from The Higher Education Authority for the newly developing Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS) which is set to be established on the 1st of October. The funding is to support them in their progression towards Technological University status and in post-establishment development.…
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LIT to receive €1,771,913 for capital works and equipment in higher education sector
LIT, which has campuses in Thurles and Clonmel, will receive €1,771,913 funding following the announcement by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris T.D of €38 million nationally for higher education institutions for the 2021-2022 academic year. Mary Immaculate College, Thurles will also receive €696,902 for Capital works and…