Young, gifted and bleak

The young are often unheard, but the girls of St Aloysius College are outspoken and articulate on the state of their nation, says Kerrie Kennedy

IT’S A CRISP Tuesday morning and I am sitting in the reception of St Aloysius’ College, in Carrigtwohill, chatting with one of the school’s Leaving Certificate pupils, a cheerful, brown-haired teenager named Zoe Fannon.

Any passersby would have been forgiven for thinking we were talking about our weekend plans — how often would you connect mention of the word ‘party’, by a 17-year-old, with politics, and not her plans to celebrate?