Jen Hogan shares parenting tips and tricks she has learned along the Leaving Cert holiday way

Half of schoolchildren have seen pornography by age of 13, including ‘very, very disturbing images’. Is there a case for a UK-style social media ban for under-16s?

From their sense of selves to their social lives and their relationships with their partners, six dads discuss the differences having children made to their lives

Patrescence, the physical and mental transition to becoming a dad, is a recent concept recognising the isolation men can sometimes feel in fatherhood

Just two more days of exams to come

Parents suggest extra marks could help level the playing field for dyslexic students

Leaving Cert students look forward to the end of exams

Helen Ogbu would ‘absolutely’ encourage other people to consider fostering, but points to the State needing to support foster carers too

‘It takes resilience. Keep going, the finish line is in sight’

Students found history and maths particularly challenging

Reduced emphasis on exams can suit some students

Irish paper two praised as fair and manageable

Mother of student with dyslexia made the difficult decision that her daughter shouldn’t sit the exams

Psychotherapist Colman Noctor would much prefer to see a child approaching the exams in a ‘chilled’ fashion, rather than ‘stressed out of it’

Jen Hogan: Three months of nothingness lies ahead for some secondary school students