Sun shines on students as right poets turn up

DESPITE the poor forecast, the sun came out in many parts of the country on Saturday morning, almost as if it knew that Leaving Certificate students were back in the exam hall.

But despite the stress of having their timetable changed at such short notice last Wednesday night, candidates at most schools were pleased with the replacement English Paper 2 exams.

Details of the four poets on the original paper – Elizabeth Bishop, John Keats, Michael Longley and Derek Walcott – had appeared in text messages and internet discussion sites after the exam was mistakenly circulated for less than a minute at a Drogheda, Co Louth, school on Wednesday morning.