An independent review has made 32 recommendations on how to advance Ireland’s sexual health and wellbeing.

Emotional wellbeing, gender, and how to be safe online will be updated features of a new SPHE curriculum.

Róisín Shortall said the transfer of patronage was ‘a snail-paced programme’.

Teenagers have previously spoken to TheJournal.ie about the presentations in secondary schools – in one case a group was told condoms fail one in six times.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has set out its recommendations for key priority actions for the State.

Parents had objected to a religious agency offering education at a multi-denominational Educate Together school.

The claim was made by a Renua local election candidate.

Sex, as a subject, remains largely an unmentionable in Russia.

From July pornography sites will be required to have robust age-verification systems in place for UK users.

A report launching today calls for a radical overhaul of how sex education is taught in both primary and secondary schools.

The order in which children are born may play a significant role in how they learn about sex, especially for boys.

Mary Mitchell O’Conner said she agreed with the health minister that religion should not determine health and social policy in Ireland.

A new survey finds that 53% of boys in Ireland first watched porn under the age of 13.

TDs and Senators pressed on if elements of sex education would be left out of the curriculum in Catholic schools.

Consideration is also being given to the extension of the provision of the morning-after pill.

Saoirse Ronan had to pay 20c for every bit of info she wanted to know about sex.

Recent survey results from Youth Work Ireland have shown how recent events like the #MeToo movement have changed the conversation around sex.

He said young people today are exposed to much more explicit forms of pornography and sexual content than any generation before them.

A new survey suggests that around one in five young people feel that it is a useful way to find out about sex.

Some politicians seem to be stuck in 1971

The list proves the need to modernise our sexual education in schools, the Taoiseach said.

Proposed legislation seeks to remove religious ethos from sex education in schools.

You can’t teach someone to be prepared for when Mambo No. 5 accidentally comes on shuffle.

Richard Bruton is due to address the annual conference of the ASTI teachers’ union this morning.

Minister Harris said work to consider the costs and other implications is continuing within his department.

Something all schools could benefit from.

A new report has called for better, more inclusive sex education.

Young people who took part in the consultation want to see the normalisation of ‘non-traditional relationships’.

The shoe’s on the other foot, for once.

The teenage birthrate has decreased by 60% since 2001.

A series of reports produced by Tusla and the HSE has found a need for a boost in sex education.

“Some people might call it a John Willy.”

Rocco Siffredi, known as the ‘Italian stallion’, said his industry has become a way to learn about sex for young people.

“Everything is based on love”.