Mother courage: Why can’t girls go to school with the boys?

In which girls go to one school, boys go to another, and I go figure

Fiona Ness
Fiona Ness

A funny thing happened on the way to the GAA: there were mutterings about separating the girls from the boys.

We’re not talking All-Ireland footballers here but Ógra – three- to five-year-olds whom, one can only surmise, are not achieving their full potential because they’re being coached alongside members of the opposite sex.

And although it’s been disproved – the argument that kids learn better in single-sex education – across the road from ...