Mick Clifford: Today's youth have been conditioned to inflate every disappointment into a trauma

Today, the majority of students go on to third level in one guise or another. Surely it is time to both take greater cognisance of the inequalities that persist and devise something that better directs students towards courses that might suit them.

For a while there last week, we had a slice of modern Ireland, wrapped up and delivered across our media.

It all began with a paper in the Leaving Cert that was, by all accounts, very difficult. Paper I higher level maths left educators, parents, and students in a state of despair. One contributor to RTÉ Radio’s Liveline on Monday said that what had unfolded was outrageous.