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

Young, gifted and bleak

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?

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