Cianan Brennan

4 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

Teaching union the ASTI is to ballot its membership in the coming weeks on whether or not to accept controversial proposals to change the Leaving Cert curriculum from September this year. A separate ballot to be voted upon at the same time will seek the vote of the secondary school union’s 20,000-strong membership on whether or not to proceed with industrial action should the proposals be rejected.

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

For weeks we had known it was coming. The Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on alleged illegal immigration had given rise to so many horror stories, it was surely only a matter of time before an Irish citizen was affected, not least given the sheer amount of undocumented Irish living in the US. The surprise, really, was that the case, when it inevitably happened, was taken against a person who had been quietly, legally, living in America for more than 40 years.

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

The Ward family has thanked supporters for their “humanity and kindness” after their sister Cliona was released from a US immigration detention, where she had spent more than two weeks imprisoned. Cliona’s sister, Orla Holladay, said that her sibling was “finally in her own bed” after an experience which had left her “in shock” and “traumatised”. Ms Holladay said Cliona’s release represents “an absolute and beautiful success”.

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

“That’s probably not a good thing,” says the director of resilience with Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre, Joe Stephens. He was referring to a screen with "UNREACHABLE" printed on it which has caught the eye. At the heart of the National Cyber Security Centre’s headquarters in Dublin is a hive of computer activity that is — an annual international collaborative game of cyberwarfare, which is running for the week.

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Cianan Brennan

Irish woman Cliona Ward has had the charges against her dropped by the US immigration service and will be released this afternoon. Appearing before a judge this morning in Tacoma, Washington, Dublin-born Ms Ward was informed that all charges had been dropped against her and she is to be released imminently.