Annual obsession with the Leaving Cert

Sir, – Further to your readers and the Leaving Cert (Letters, June 9th), I too wonder about the annual fixation on the Leaving Cert in newsprint and radio and who is the target audience for this vacuous and repetitive annual nevel gazing? And I ask does anyone know of a Leaving Cert student, or indeed anyone under 50, who reads a newspaper or listens to radio and who might perchance prosper from the unsolicited advice?

And in the same vein, why do I receive an unsolicited gift of an Irish language newspaper and a glossy fashion supplement in my Irish Times, and whose life is shorter than the Mayfly and consigned to the recycling bin on arrival?

I feel a “baa humbug” coming on. – Yours, etc,

TOMÁS FINN,

RM Block

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