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• Headmistress and family found dead on school grounds

  The head of a private school in Surrey, England, has been found dead with her husband and child on the school's grounds, Surrey Police have said.

• Principals seek ‘right to disconnect’ as study shows hours worked out of school

  CARL O'BRIEN Education Editor Principals are seeking the "right to disconnect" as a new study shows most are working long periods outside the school day, at weekends and during holidays to deal with challenging workloads.

• A doctor can hang a scarf outside their door too

  As well as being thankful to St Brigid for facilitating the addition of a new bank holiday to the calendar - and allowing us (hopefully) savour that rare joy of waking up on a Monday morning not having to rush to work - what other attributes does the saint offer us?

• Balloon row cannot hide reality that US and China need one another

  The sighting of a large Chinese balloon above Billings, Montana last week, which was viewed at first as an almost trivial incident, has become a real threat to efforts to stabilise the relationship between Washington and Beijing.

• Counter-drone system delay leaves airport vulnerable

  CONOR POPE

• Lyng’s men lay some historical ghosts to rest

  SEÁN MORAN GAA correspondent Derek Lyng's Kilkenny got off to a winning start on Saturday. It marked the first time since April 1998 that the county had played a league fixture without Brian Cody in charge.

• Rowe has final word to put halt to Cork comeback

  Carla Rowe scored the last two points of the game as Dublin used all of their experience to get over the line in a Division One thriller against Cork yesterday.

• Work on the Swilcan Bridge halted

  It's sometimes perilous to materially alter iconic landmarks, as the St Andrews Trust has discovered: work to create stonework at entry and exit points to the famed Swilcan Bridge on the Old Course has been halted and, indeed, the intention is to remove the stones and to revert back to the original turf surfaces.

• O’Flynn sustains dislocated ankle in win over Limerick

  Cork forward, Robbie O'Flynn, who was stretchered off during the dramatic one-point win over All-Ireland champions Limerick, has sustained a dislocated ankle, according to a county board spokesperson.

• Klopp breaks the pantomime of press conferences

  JONATHAN LIEW

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• What are schools doing about soaring rates of cyberbullying?

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