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Devin Seán Martin started his college career in Ireland two years ago, but he hasn't seen his classmates, or the inside of an academic building for 18 months. He writes about what happens when his overseas college bucket list is all but cancelled, but how living in a deserted city thousands of kilometres away from his family has had its own lessons.

Ross Hunt argues that Ireland should redirect €50 billion towards additional education funding over the next 20 years. Here is how he would spend it.

The Irish education system has remained stuck in a paper-based world and failed to grasp the challenge life-long learning. Yet we have the resources to transform it into the best in the world, argues Ross Hunt.