Leaving Cert Results

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tim_Riggins

Correct.

The SEC are incompetent on the whole. I guarantee it is staff wanting to vacation and them being also busy with the Junior Cert. If the LC wants to be considered a credible exam in the 21st century they need to sort this out. If it is the case that it is the administrative burden of the JC, that should be delayed one month as it is just not important.

You shouldn’t be waiting until the last couple of weeks of 14 years of the State education system to decide whether someone can move onto the next stage of their education and then pull this shit.

Your man @anon7035031 blathers on about “kafkaesque”.

This is kafkaesque.

[balbec]

It’s fascinating to see the different reactions about this case from the jobsworth unsackable public servant compared to guys who engage with real clients and customers in a competitive market. Cc @Bandage

[Fat_Pox]

I remember a somewhat similar story from home over 20 years ago. A lad just missed out on law in UCD by a few points. He got his exams rechecked and he got the necessary extra points to join the course. This was in October when he found out and and UCD refused to let him join the course that year and told him he could join the following year… His old lad being a hard-core FF man went down the political line ringing the FF TD at the time seeing if if some political pressure could force the issue but to no avail. The family has resigned themselves to the young lad taking a year out, when it was suggested they give Michael Lowry a try. A phone call was made to Lowry and within 30 minutes UCD were on the phone allowing the lad to start his course immediately. A five vote swing in that household from FF to Lowry for the next 25 years.

Maybe that young girl from Wexford should contact her local independent TD

[count_of_monte_crist]

Mick will sort it.

[peddlerscross]

Many a man/woman has been on waiting lists for hip replacements for years, before a phone call to Lowry has lead to an ambulance being at their front door within the hour taking them to Dublin to get the job done.

[artfoley]

@peddlerscross

Many a man/woman has been on waiting lists for hip replacements for years

of course that’s without paying lipservice to the problems that clientist politicians create and add to waiting lists.

[Esso_Oil]

Student wins case over incorrect Leaving Cert marks

[glasagusban]

I hope the SEC have an officer capable of adding up the sums right and then writing a letter confirming the correct number of points and sending it to her on time by then.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Esso_Oil

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2018/0926/998235-leaving-cert/

@artfoley will be gutted.

[glasagusban]

He’ll probably have to work overtime to get that done by noon on Friday.

[farmerinthecity]

Fair play to that girl taking on the system like that.

[Cicero_Dandi]

You think she’d get a job for the year and wait until next year.

That’s the rich and entitled for you though.

[dodgy_keeper]

A glaring lack of cop on from the powers that be here.

Just admit you made a mistake, amend the points total, let her take the college place that she has earned and is entitled to - panic over.

Official Ireland would wear you down with the pen pushers and jobs worths.

[anon32894817]

@Cicero_Dandi

You think she’d get a job for the year and wait until next year.

That’s the rich and entitled for you though.

@dodgy_keeper

A glaring lack of cop on from the powers that be here.

Just admit you made a mistake, amend the points total, let her take the college place that she has earned and is entitled to - panic over.

Official Ireland would wear you down with the pen pushers and jobs worths.

Tfk summed up in two posts.

[balbec]

She is on the radio right now.

[Batigol]

You’d imagine if the colleges draw from the CAO then surely the dates for appeals etc would line up with the last dates for admission to courses? Hopefully the lads and lady pen pushers and pusheresses can get together and sync up the two systems so this doesn’t happen again

[Fagan_ODowd]

@balbec

She is on the radio right now.

Watching this young Wexford lass on the news. She came across very well.

[Bandage]

+1. Very impressive interview on Six One.

[Spidey]

Must be a nice dent in the trust fund bringing it all the way to the High Court. Would judge award costs in a case like this?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Spidey

Must be a nice dent in the trust fund bringing it all the way to the High Court. Would judge award costs in a case like this?

He’ll award costs against the State. So the taxpayer will be down another chunk because some fucking eejit in the department wouldn’t do the right thing.