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Significant changes to grading of Leaving Certificate results
Written by Nora Samworth   
Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:17
Significant changes have been announced to how Leaving Certificate results will be graded for students sitting the exam in 2017 and subsequent years.
 
The number of grades that can be awarded is to be reduced from the current 14 to just eight.
 
Students will no longer get A's B's and C's, but H1's H2'S and H3's at Higher Level instead, and O1's, 2's and 3's at Ordinary Level.
 
Officials at the Department of Education describe the changes as an important development which should improve the senior cycle experience for students. 
 
There is broad agreement that the current system of grading increases pressure on students.
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Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus strike is set to go ahead midnight tomorrow
Written by Nora Samworth   
Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:58
Bus passengers are advised to plan ahead this bank holiday weekend as a two-day strike at Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus is set to go ahead from midnight tomorrow.
 
The strike will overlap with disruptions to a number of Iarnród Éireann train routes as the company conducts line improvement works. 
 
Changes to normal scheduling be in place on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
 
So far, there has been no breakthrough in the dispute over private tendering of bus routes. The action will affect over 850,000 passengers on Friday and Saturday. 
 
Minister for Transport Paschal Donohoe yesterday gave a commitment that no employee will be forced to transfer to private sector operators as a result of the tender.
 
At the Oireachtas Transport Committee today, Chief Executive of Bus Éireann Martin Nolan said bus companies must implement Government policy and urged unions to call off the strike.
 
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Receivers have taken possession of Gorse Hill.
Written by Nora Samworth   
Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:51
Receivers have taken possession of Gorse Hill in Killiney after solicitor Brian O'Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia O'Donnell left the property.
 
Shortly before 1pm, the receiver Tom Kavanagh and his personnel arrived at the gates of the property.
 
A number of gardaí had already come on duty outside the house shortly before his arrival.
 
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Parish Priest tell mourners at funeral of Karen Buckley"Now is a time for Tears"
Written by Nora Samworth   
Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:55
Crowds gathered in Mourneabbey in north Cork this afternoon for the funeral of 24-year-old Cork student Karen Buckley.
 
Crowds gathered for the funeral, at St Michael the Archangel in Analeentha church in Mourneabbey, near Mallow in Co Cork.
 
The student's brothers placed a photograph of her as a child starting school, as well as her nurse uniform,
Parish priest Fr Joe O'Keeffe told mourners, who were led by Ms Buckley's parents John and Marian and brothers Brendan, Kieran and Damian, that now was a time of tears.
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Dublin woman found not guilty of assisted suicide.
Written by Nora Samworth   
Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:36
A Dublin woman charged with attempting to assist the suicide of another woman by making arrangements for her to travel to Zurich has been found not guilty.
 
After deliberating for just over seven hours since yesterday, the jury of six men and six women delivered the verdict this afternoon. 
 
Gail O'Rorke was last week acquitted on direction of the trial judge on two other charges of assisting the suicide of her friend Bernadette Forde. 
 
The 43-year-old, from Kilclare Gardens in Tallaght, had denied the charges.
 
Ms O'Rorke wept in court as the jury verdict was delivered.
 
Her family who have been present in court in large numbers throughout the case cheered and clapped.
 
Judge Pat McCartan paid tribute to both legal teams and gardaí for their handling of the case, which was the first of its kind under legislation introduced in 1993.
 
He thanked the jury for their service and said "justice has been done
 
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