Irish education: learning hard financial lessons

Back to school: three little words retailers love to use to put a dampener on any child's final weeks of freedom - and, as today's Sunday Business Post/Coyne Research study reveals, the impact of these three little words on the pockets of the hard-pressed parents of said children can be equally bleak.

Whether the child is in primary school or going to third level, this is an expensive time of year all round. ...