It’s so wrong I can game system with money for a good Leaving Cert

The current Leaving Cert points system for university just doesn't add up, writes Victoria White

‘IF YOU don’t do well in the Leaving (Cert) you can just go over that hill and marry Farmer Brown!” my friend’s mother used to tell her girls. I’ve made up the poor man’s name. He wouldn’t want to wake up and find he’d been envisioned as the “nul points” option for the female Leaving Cert candidates in the area.