26 thoughts on “De Sunday Papers

  1. Dermie

    If this article re Dwyer was in the Indo it would no doubt inform us in the first paragraph that he was from Foxrock. Like we could forget from every article they previously published

  2. Commentator

    Sunday independent league tables for schools. The reporter Wayne O’Connor doesn’t seem to get it nor does the Sunday Independent editor who is a past man of CIstercian College Roscrea. A 100% go to 3rd level (69%to an actual university). But we are not told how many sat the Leaving Cert. It was about 20 students. So, 20 students in Cistercian College go to 3rd level and its 100%. Yet, 50 students in a local Community College could have gone to 3rd level but if there were 100 pupils in the year it would still be 50%, yet it would be 30 more humans than Cistercian College. The indo buying into the PR!

    1. Brother Barnabas

      so a school sending 100 students out of 1,000 to 3rd level is outperforming a school sending 90 students out of 100 to 3rd level, right?

      1. Commentator

        Brother Barnabus, I’m going to take my Leaving Cert student son out of his school. I am going to hire private tutors and give him home school here at home. Fast forward to next year and he gets to University. I expect to be at the very top of the Sunday Independent league tables for my home school. 100% etc

  3. Lilly

    Page 4 of Sindo, pull quote:

    ‘Crime has sunk to a new love when fans’ lives are threatened’.

    Oh dear.

  4. Mensonge

    There’s also the dual questions of a) how many of the kids who go to university survive the first year without dropping out, and b) have twelve years of schooling turned out self-reliant people competent in the subjects they learned, rather than in passing examinations in them. I learned Latin, French, Spanish and Irish, but couldn’t hold a conversation in any of them after my school career.

  5. scottser

    So the mandarins are plotting to slip a banana skin under those tory fruitcakes may and Johnson. What a pear, eh?

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