“Katherine Donnelly (‘Reforming education isn’t as simple as ABC’, Irish Independent, July 23) says of the Leaving Cert points system: ‘While it may be brutal, it is fair’. I have no doubt that she is referring to the widely held view of many people, rather than her own personal view. But I must ask those people – fair to whom, exactly? …” (more)
[Emer Nowlan, Independent, 24 July]