Trump makes the papers: America First policy scrutinised in politics exam

The divisiveness of Trump’s America First policy and the centenary of parliamentary voting rights for some women featured in the first Leaving Certificate politics and society exams.

Almost 900 students at 41 schools which piloted the subject sat 2.5-hour papers yesterday afternoon.

Students doing the higher level exam could have written about the need for a “social contract” as proposed by Leo Varadkar when campaigning for the Fine Gael leadership last year, but they needed to refer to theorists they had studied as part of their answer. Another question invited discussion on the invisibility of women today, compared to their position in a patriarchial society in 1918.