Sir, – In anticipation of canvassers calling to my door soon, I have a small bundle of examination papers ready on my hall table. The heading on each paper reads: Oireachtas Entrance Examination December 2024.
Instructions for Candidates:
Pick at least two of the following topics and explain in less than one minute per topic.
1) Mica.
Sarah Moss: People trying to sell diets enrage me on good days. On bad days I feel inadequate
Princess Margaret’s Galway island visit: ‘By the cut of you, you’re a lady. Will you take a drink?’
Analysis: EU leaders agree but disagree on defence
We built a bungalow on what was initially a boggy patch in my parents’ sloped front garden in Kerry
2. Pyrite.
3) Bicycle shed equals the price of a house.
4) Unfinished most expensive children’s hospital in the world.
Unsatisfactory or waffley answers for either or both topic chosen will result in the candidate’s failure to get my vote. – Yours, etc,
NOEL SHANAGHY,
Faithlegg,
Co Waterford.
Sir, – Apart from various excitable media outlets, do I detect a serious case of apathy among the general public as to the date of the general election? – Yours, etc,
ITA McCORMACK,
Maynooth,
Co Kildare.
