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A briefing for the Department of Education on a €9 million plan to buy mobile phone pouches for schools said they were easy to use, cost effective and encouraged “equity” among students. The document, prepared before the department’s decision to…

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A former schoolteacher turned adventurer, who previously survived a bear attack, on Sunday became the fastest and oldest person to swim Ireland’s longest river, the Shannon. Dermot Higgins (62) swam the 250km waterway stretch in 10 days, four fewer than…