Ireland's school performance reads well, but there is a twist in the tale

Schoolchildren in Ireland are still near the top of the class when it comes to reading and maths, but when it comes to wellbeing, there are signs that the pandemic has taken its toll.

There is plenty of good news to celebrate in both the latest international PIRLS and the National Assessments of Mathematics and English Reading (NAMER) 2021. File Picture.

Ireland has ranked amongst the top in the world when it comes to the reading prowess of our primary school children, a point of pride for a country with such a strong literary connection.

Such an accolade in one of the largest global studies of its kind is some achievement. More than 300,000 students in almost 60 countries around the world took part in the latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) which has now been published by the Department of Education.