When Nuala Costigan has a child doing the Leaving Cert, you know all about it. This year it’s her youngest. And my niece Freya’s did it too. And… let’s just say, as they say in the Olympics, Freya will be in the repechage. Nuala collars me in Lidl – “well, did Freya get her course?” I said I didn’t know but I knew well she didn’t get any course. Freya announced to her mother before the exams that “the CAO was a pyramid scheme.” She wasn’t the slightest bit bothered after her points. She’s only this summer announced she’s going to be an apprentice electrician.