Leaving Cert: Second Irish paper proves testing

The second higher level Leaving Certificate paper for students of Irish was much tougher than Monday’s first exam.

Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) subject representative Ruth Morrissey said that the two comprehension pieces — one about Olympics controversies and the other on climate change — were tough.

Not alone were they heavy topics, she felt there was a lot of unfamiliar vocabulary in them, although the questions about them were manageable enough. Some of the final questions on each also required students to have understood the pieces in great detail.