Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, TD has welcomed the launch by the European Union (20 November 2008) of "Europeana" - the European Digital Library, which has been launched today in Brussels as a prototype website.
The National Parents Council say it is becoming increasingly difficult to have books 'handed down' from older to younger students, because the editions go out of date so quickly.
So expensive has it become to avail of "free" education that you could buy a new Mercedes C Class 320 CDI car for the cost of educating one child from primary to university level.