Rich kids start halfway down the track of our college points race

I overheard them on Tuesday as they hunched over their shopping, faces constricted with the effort of comparing one grind school, which charges about €7,295 a year to another, which charges €6,900 a year.

Maybe they found out yesterday that their bet had paid off. Maybe their products got medicine in UCD or science in UCC or engineering in Trinity.

Maybe those products will triumph in their careers and the investment will multiply thousands of times over.