Students taught as gaeilge enjoy the advantage

STUDENTS at Coláiste Pobail Osrai in Kilkenny city were at something of an advantage yesterday afternoon.

The secondary equivalent of a Gaelscoil, the Coláiste teaches all subjects through Irish so Irish Paper I in the Junior Cert was greeted in a relaxed manner by the students who are all fluent in the old language.

It’s rare to hear secondary pupils universally describing an Irish paper as “grand”, but that was the consensus at Coláiste Pobail yesterday.