TRIUMPHANT Waterford youth Alan Harrison celebrated his Leaving Cert results with his classmates last night, completely oblivious to the fact that this is the top of life’s mountain with only decades of jagged rocks to follow. Harrison was congratulated earlier by both of his alive-right-now parents after receiving more than enough points for his dream… Read more »
RATHER than rushing to congratulate their younger sister Gráinne on her solid 500 points showing in this year’s Leaving Cert, older siblings Cormac (370 points) and Niamh (480 points) have labeled it as ‘not a real Leaving’. In a sign that the pandemic has left some things unchanged, Cormac and Niamh spent the morning passive… Read more »
BACK TO SCHOOL pictures on social media have become the new fad in keeping up with the Joneses, evolving from simple front door snaps of children heading back to school, to a new form of ‘look at my beautiful house interior’. WWN looks at the 5 best photogenic fireplaces to stick your back to school… Read more »
FAILING TO hide her annoyance at the fact her youngest child has his school hazmat suit ruined three days into the school year, local mother Rachel Keeley’s patience is being tested to its limits. “What did I tell you? No knee slides,” Keeley said through gritted teeth which grasped thread she was using to sow… Read more »
PARENTS concerned about safety measures in their kids’ schools have angrily turned to the teachers and principals for answers, as if education professionals have been shown some masterful plan by the government but are just keeping it to themselves. With schools being one of the first institutions to be closed when the pandemic hit our… Read more »
IN A BID to ‘get out ahead’ of any possible PR disaster and to limit any stress Irish students may experience, the Dept. of Education has confirmed that Leaving Cert students looking on in horror at the A-Levels results debacle in England need not worry, as their exam results will be bungled in a much… Read more »
“I CAN’T believe I stayed under lockdown for five long months and now I’m probably going to be brought down by that drip-nosed little shit Declan O’Conlon” sighed Waterford primary school teacher Eilish Mallone, dolefully reading the government’s daily ‘this is what we’re doing about schools, for real this time’ announcement. “Last year he gave… Read more »
AN INGENIOUS system used by farmers to protect their sheep against infestation from external parasites is to be adopted on a trial basis in rural Ireland in a bid to ward off Covid-19 infection spread among school children. Sheep dipping troughs are to be installed in over 200 Primary Schools nationwide before September and is… Read more »
MIXED messages and uncertainty from the government surrounding the re-opening of schools in September has thrown the plans of parents, kids, teachers and weird oddballs who have been told several times not to be hanging around the gates into total disarray, WWN can report. “Do I still have to stay 100 yards away from the… Read more »
THE IRISH government has today forewarned the public that if the abysmal, confusing and contradictory information around traveling in and out of the country has left them tearing their hair out and eating their disinfected passports, then they really aren’t prepared for the government’s plans for reopening schools. “You ain’t seen nothing yet,” warned Minister… Read more »