The minister’s [Jan Sullivan] proposals [schools would only be allowed to reserve one in 10 places for the children of past pupils] will now bite the dust as she says there won’t be time to get the proposed new law through in the lifetime of the current Dáil.

The minister said she was disappointed by the development. But her sentiments will not be shared by her Fine Gael cabinet colleagues, many of them past pupils of elite schools, who came under pressure on the issue.

There you go now.

‘Old boy network’ wins out in school place row (Irish Independent)