"The greatest privilege for me is when they as parents bring their children back to me to start their educational journey.

A much-loved primary school in north Tipperary will not reopen at the start of the new school year in September. St Joseph’s National School, which opened in the 1960s, is a rural, mixed school in ...

To enrol in government school, a child must turn 5 before 30 April of the year they start school. There can be exemptions to the age policy, but these are very rare. For more information on school ...