A former student of Donabate Community College has been awarded The 2018 Gwenda Hurst Memorial Medal for her outstanding work in her Geography Leaving Certificate exam.. Each year, the Association of ...

Throughout Home School Hub, we have explored the amazing Geography all over the planet. Now it is time to take to our boat and explore Ireland's islands. There are a huge number of islands dotted ...

Professor Chaosheng Zhang came to Galway over 20 years ago to work, but it’s his hobby — taking stunning photographs celebrating the Irish landscape — that has made him feel truly at home, and turned ...

This year’s higher-level geography paper was fair, topical and gave students plenty of opportunity to shine, teachers have said. Edmond Hussey, ASTI subject representative and a teacher at CBC Cork, ...

That was the view of Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) subject spokesperson Robert Chaney, who considered it a fair examination. He said a question about profit made on the sale of ...

Sir, – In his recent excellent address to the MacGill Summer School, Ruairí Quinn highlighted the challenges facing modern education in Ireland (Home News, July 28th). He suggested potential reform of ...

Geography no longer offers Ireland the same protection it once did when it comes to security, the Taoiseach has warned. In today's world, cyber and hybrid attacks can strike infrastructure, democratic ...

As geopolitical crises and climate change transform the world, John Kennedy questions the removal of geography as a core school subject. A woman who grew up in the same town as me, and who went to ...

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Geographical information systems (GIS) firm ESRI Ireland is to expand its Irish operations, employing an additional 10 software engineers over the next 12 months. On top of the 15 people hired over ...