Saved by the bell: Gaelscoil Bharra shows how the system really works
Do you want a lesson in how the state and election hopefuls operate?
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 ...