With State and University exams on the horizon, taking time out to exercise every day may be seen as a waste of good study time, but flexing those muscles or just limbering up is beneficial for students on a number of levels. Colette Sheridan reports.

Hundreds of people from marginalised backgrounds will be supported to join a teaching profession which has been criticised for being too "white, female and middle class" under a series of new access programmes. Maynooth University is launching a new initiative to support more than 100 students – such as migrants, Travellers and students from poor backgrounds – to become teachers. Carl O'Brien reports.

Four national youth organisations have advised young people to ensure they are on the voting register before the May 8th deadline so they can vote in the upcoming abortion referendum. Colin Gleeson has the details.

Aoife Manley, an Irish student studying at Northeastern University in Boston, has written a moving poem in memory of the estimated 800 babies and children whose bodies were found in a mass grave at the site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway.

Over the last few weeks, if you went among the film community, you'd find critics, distributors and exhibitors mouthing certain apparently unrelated words to themselves as they went about their business. Donald Clarke on the worst film titles of all time.

The European Union's statistics agency has confirmed that hundreds of millions of euro in borrowings by Irish universities should remain off the Government's balance sheet, writes Carl O'Brien.

It could be argued that the deli-counter has become an effective metaphor for the state of political debate in modern-day Ireland, writes Griffith College student of journalism Michael Keaveny.