Saved by the bell: Gaelscoil Bharra shows how the system really works

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Enda Kenny TD chatting with Adrienne Butler and her daughter Céire a number of years ago outside Gaelscoil Bharra in Cabra Picture: Rollingnews

It is embarrassing enough to drop your children to school in the morning, late, and bump into the principal in the yard; it is quite something else to do so and bump into the Minister for Education.

Add in the Minister for Transport and three other TDs, and you have a schoolyard that suddenly feels uncomfortably like a Morning Ireland studio.

The school is Gaelscoil Bharra in Cabra. The occasion was the confirmation ...