Election 2024: Education — 'Forget phone pouches. Leaving Cert projects are a bigger problem'

One of the first things English teacher Conor Murphy had to deal with in the classroom, now more than 25 years ago, was a girl answering her mobile phone down the back of the class.

“I had hair then and I have no hair now, and I’m still dealing with the same thing,” he laughed. “It wasn’t a really a big issue then and it’s really not a big issue now.”

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