# Teacher

All time

# Love/Hate relationship

Elmo from Love/Hate reveals he used to be the school bully

He used to pick on St Patrick’s Athletic striker Anthony Flood.

12.3k

Dec 4th 2013, 5:20 PM

# Lesson Learned

Teacher demonstrates to class how pictures spread on the internet, goes viral

It’s safe to say she proved her point.

6.6k

Nov 27th 2013, 3:05 PM

# Ball So Hard

Harlem Globetrotters visit teacher who went viral with basketball trick

Mr Hovan was filmed spinning a basketball on his pen while marking papers.

5.7k

Nov 8th 2013, 9:04 AM

# Viral

Teenager goes viral with selfie taken with his teacher who was in labour

It is truly a snapshot of our time.

63.6k

Oct 18th 2013, 6:00 PM

# hot for teacher

WATCH: Hugh Jackman runs into former student on the red carpet

Did you know that Hugh Jackman used to be a P.E. teacher?

2.6k

Oct 7th 2013, 10:30 PM

# Hands Up

The 8 most terrifying things your teacher said in class

Steel your nerves. We’re going back there.

31.2k

Oct 3rd 2013, 1:00 PM

Tell us, did you have a favourite teacher?

Pay tribute to them here…

21.4k

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Aug 31st 2013, 1:00 PM

# troublemaker

12 incredible reasons for getting a detention

If you’re going to get in trouble, it might as well be for a brilliant reason.

34.6k

Aug 17th 2013, 6:00 PM

# Athlone

JobBridge primary teacher ad slammed as "exploitative"

The Department of Education has said that schools can participate in the scheme – but not use it to displace staff or fill a current vacancy.

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Jul 27th 2013, 2:26 PM

# if it ain't broke

Teacher wears same outfit for 40 years of school photos

Well, if it works.

2.6k

Jul 4th 2013, 10:17 AM

# elected

New Labour mayor of South Dublin County will "continue to be outspoken"

A number of Labour councillors have left the party, but new Mayor Dermot Looney said he intends to stay with the party – even if his views are sometimes ‘left field’.

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Jun 30th 2013, 6:45 PM

# Runaway teen

British teacher found guilty of abduction after eloping with pupil, 15

Jeremy Forrest and the schoolgirl moved to France and dyed their hair – with the schoolgirl saying she encouraged the relationship.

10.9k

Jun 20th 2013, 5:30 PM

# Tragedy

16 children die in Pakistan school bus fire

The blaze was apparently caused by a spark when the driver of the dual-fuel van switched from gas to petrol.

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May 25th 2013, 8:43 AM

# gym rats

8 reasons why P.E was the only reason to get out of bed for school

Including piano goal celebrations, Spiderman undies in the public swimming pool and vomit-inducing rope climbs.

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May 11th 2013, 10:40 AM

# get into pairs

The 7 most annoying things your teacher ever said

“They won’t accept that handwriting next year.”

37.4k

Apr 24th 2013, 6:00 PM

# GOOD DEED

It is spreading across Ireland - but what exactly is suspended coffee?

Suspended coffee is the slightly clunky name for a cheap good deed which has been spreading across Ireland. Here’s what it’s all about.

31.9k

Apr 21st 2013, 8:30 AM

# Cool Runnings

Interview: Galway native on top of the world after North Pole victory

Gary Thornton was more relieved than anything else to finish the icy course last week.

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Apr 20th 2013, 10:00 AM

# Bullying

28 students suspended for 'Liking' explicit post about teacher

A Co Limerick school has suspended 28 students after liking a Facebook update referring to a teacher’s personal life.

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Mar 12th 2013, 3:17 PM

# Teachers

INTO calls for all teachers to be given mental health training

The training would mean that teachers could better deal with work colleagues who are experiencing mental health difficulties.

9.3k

Mar 11th 2013, 4:03 PM

Voices

Bullied: Your stories of bullying in school

We asked and you told us. Here are your stories about bullying in school.

34.9k

Mar 5th 2013, 1:00 PM

# Child's play

Teacher with a fear of children sues Ohio school district

The 61-year-old woman says her phobia was triggered when she began teaching younger children.

16.9k

Jan 15th 2013, 4:36 PM

Voices

Column: What I’ll miss most about an Irish Christmas

The 12 pubs, the annual soap catch-up and the post-dinner snooze – Simon Growney will be thinking longingly of them in Thailand.

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Dec 24th 2012, 1:00 PM

# way back when

13 famous people who used to teach

Gene Simmons taught primary school for a while… it didn’t work out.

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Nov 24th 2012, 12:00 PM

# ratbo

Enda Kenny: Taoiseach, teacher... rat-killer

Extracts from The Unlikely Taoiseach by John Downing show a tough side to Enda ‘Ratbo’* Kenny. (*We may have made up this nickname.)

10.6k

Nov 19th 2012, 6:45 AM

# megan stammers

Runaway British teen heads home, teacher in French prison

Megan Stammers and her 30-year-old maths teacher Jeremy Forrest were found in France yesterday.

20.5k

Sep 29th 2012, 1:33 PM

# Missing

Missing schoolgirl Megan Stammers and teacher found in France

Police said the information which led to their discovery came as a direct result of media coverage in France.

20.6k

Sep 28th 2012, 2:43 PM

# Powerful

VIDEO: Teacher of the Year criticises the “injustice” of system and “teacher-bashing”

English teacher Evelyn O’Connor made an emotional speech about the issue of non-permanency and her anger with education policies here. Watch her speech….

20.2k

Jun 29th 2012, 6:30 AM

# hazing

Teacher and students arrested after 'brutal' hazing allegations

Three boys were attacked in separate incidents at a high school in Southern California. One 18-year-old student is being investigated for child cruelty.

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Jun 25th 2012, 10:05 PM

# France

Toulouse gunman’s 29-year-old brother charged with murder and terrorism

French authorities have said they believe Abdelkader Merah was involved in his brother Mohamed’s shooting spree which left seven people dead.

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Mar 25th 2012, 7:21 PM

# Iraq

School teacher shot dead by pupil in Iraq

The school teacher was shot dead by a student who then turned the gun on himself in the calssroom, eye-witnessess said.

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Mar 1st 2012, 4:48 PM

# California

US teacher put on leave over porn site allegations

Special education teacher and former girls soccer coach Heidi Kaeslin faces allegations that she maintained a pornographic website from her school-issued laptop computer.

6.3k

Nov 18th 2011, 8:21 PM

# Teacher

UK schoolteacher defends out-of-hours porn career

Benedict Garrett, a teacher with a soft porn website and stripping career, faces being struck off the register.

3.9k

Aug 31st 2011, 11:10 AM

LIVE

The 9 at 9: Saturday

Nine things you need to know before 9am: Gardaí make five arrests in relation to a massive drugs haul; good news for cash-strapped ESB customers; presidential elections in Nigeria; and Stephen Fry is prepared to go to prison.

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Apr 16th 2011, 9:00 AM

# Teacher

Teacher who called himself ‘The Salford Stallion’ and had sex with pupils is jailed

The deputy head of a secondary school in Manchester had sex with a number of pupils and was jailed for six years today.

3.6k

Apr 5th 2011, 2:50 PM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Investigation underway after some gardaí allegedly joked about ‘raping’ and ‘deporting’ Corrib protesters; fears of a serial killer on the loose in New York and why Ireland’s not the only country worried about banking stress tests.

3.8k

Apr 5th 2011, 8:16 AM

# Inquest

Teacher sets himself alight after texting 'I love you' to girl, 8

The 29-year-old had been suspended from his post during an investigation into his “relationship” with an eight-year-old student. An inquest found he set himself on fire moments after texting the girl to say “I love you”.

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Mar 28th 2011, 1:59 PM

# Bad Idea

Teachers fired for flirting with students on Facebook

One teacher told his teenage students they looked “sexy” in photos they had posted on Facebook.

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Oct 19th 2010, 12:28 PM