Sports themes feature strongly in Irish exams

For Leaving Certificate students of Irish, sports themes featured strongly at both levels on their Paper 2 exams.

Robbie Cronin, subject spokesperson for ASTI, said the higher level exam opened with an interesting article about Jim Thorpe, an Irish-American double-gold winner at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

Although most questions were fair, he thought an opinion question about the mindsets of the American people and the International Olympic Council was too demanding.