The Junior Certificate needs to be bombed. As I head towards putting my first sacrifice on the altar of state exams in June, I'm appalled by what it's teaching him.
He's learning to consult past papers and engage in risk analysis worthy of Ladbrokes to work out what will appear on the day. He's learning to study just what he thinks he needs to know.
Worst of all, he seems to think that's all he needs to know in life.
Letters to the Editor I can hear grown men howling - "Get your hands off my Thomas!"
Editorial It is a curious fact of life that frequently it is the people with the most ridiculous ideas who are most certain of them. As the capital city was paralysed yesterday because of a pointless and utterly preventable strike, miles of cars were glued bumper-to-bumper as their drivers fumed.
Katie Byrne The world is divided into two types of people: those who giddily tune into Christmas FM on November 28 of each year; and those who lose the will to live when they hear Mariah Carey explaining that she...
