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Preparing For Life helps families raise happy and healthy children who are ready for school, like five year old Lucy. Photo: Audra Melton "The neighbourhood around here, it's very hard to raise your children in. This place is overrun with drugs and gangs," explained a…

by JOANNE HUNT   Taboos could be broken around issues such as depression – which leads to more deaths than road accidents ‘IF THERE WAS one key social justice issue you would pursue in government, what would it be?’’ This question, posed in the dying minutes…

By Eleanor McCloreyChild literacy is not a priority on the political or public agenda. This must change, writes Eleanor McClorey IT’S time to spell it out — Ireland has a child literacy emergency. One afternoon last month four children from Ballymun were collected from primary…

RONAN McGREEVYCHILDREN WHO have the benefit of preschool are less likely to lie, cheat or steal as adults, a conference was told yesterday.US educator Dr Larry Schweinhart, who pioneered a long-term longitudinal study into the benefits of early childhood education, said it was an accepted…

By Arthur Beesley John Healy seems more like a university professor than a man who has been in command of a Bermuda-based financial colossus with assets in excess of $4 billion (€3.12 billion). What is more, he is charged with giving all that money away…