The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has branded the Budget allocation of €9 million for mobile phone pouches in secondary schools as "a terrible waste of public money." Speaking in Co ...

What are these smartphone ‘pouches’ being introduced in schools? And how do they work?Opens in new window ] And yet, the announcement in Budget 2025 that €9 million is to be provided to fund ...

Pinellas County’s main dump is now not accepting storm debris. “I’m just trying to get by, but to shut down the dump shuts off about 60% of my business,” Rutherford said. “And ...

Schools have said the €9m set aside for mobile phone pouches in Budget 2025 would have been better spent on the “more significant and biting” problems they face. The decision to allocate the ...

“No pouch is going to be forced on any school, forced on any principal, forced on any child, but Minister for Education Norma Foley and the government have quite rightly worked with schools and ...

just one day after prosecutors’ scathing evidence dump against him was unsealed. Trump’s team cited a June ruling from the Supreme Court in Fischer v. United States that curtailed the scope of ...

For everyone who needs it. THE PROPOSAL TO spend €9 million on locked phone pouches for secondary schools has been branded “grotesque, inexcusable” and a “pet project” by opposition parties.

It was announced in Budget 2025 that €9 million is to be provided to fund efforts to keep students off their phones during the school day, including the provision of secure pouches to store the ...

A total of €9 million has been allocated for schools to purchase equipment to store student’ phones – such as lockable phone pouches, electronic lockers or other storage solutions that will ...

Education Minister Norma Foley says €9m of the education budget will go to schools for the purchase of pouches to lock pupils’ mobile phones away during the school day. Ms Foley had previously ...

Now Friday and Saturday and Monday we were able to dump at the county, the lines were obviously very long, but I mean it’s just been more than we can handle," Mceleny told the I-Team.