Ballinrobe Leaving Cert students make RTÉ news

Ballinrobe Leaving Cert students make RTÉ television news


Ciara Galvin

Ballinrobe Community School’s principal and some of its Leaving Cert students featured on the RTÉ Six One news last week. RTÉ’s Western correspondent Pat McGrath interviewed outgoing principal Michael Brett at the school. Commenting on the three-hours-and-twenty-minute duration of English Paper 2, Mr Brett described the duration as ‘excessively long’.
“Particularly for a subject which requires an enormous amount of writing. Everyone would agree that three hours and twenty minutes in English from a writing point of view is much more challenging than three hours and twenty minutes of mathematics. It’s an extremely challenging exam,” said Mr Brett.
A number of students gave their reaction to the testing paper. Darragh Shaughnessy from Cloghans Hill said he didn’t find the paper ‘too bad’.
Asked if the paper contained any banana skins, Aoife Gilraine from Ballinrobe said that the Unseen Poem question was the only issue but that it was still ‘manageable’,
Relying on the famous ‘granny’s candle’, Aoife Morrin from Tourmakeady joked that all Leaving Certs ‘get by because of granny’s candle these days’.
“I’ve two [grannies] thank God, so that really helped. An extra one for good luck.”
The examinations finish on June 21 next.