School principals are calling for detailed guidance on how the Leaving Certificate examinations are going to be managed. Yesterday, Minister for Education Joe McHugh announced the delayed Leaving Cert exams will commence on 29 July.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Sean O’Rourke, the Principal St Patrick's Classical School in Navan, Colm O’Rourke, has said it is "unsatisfactory" that schools have received no information from the State Examinations Commission, or the Department of Education. "We have not heard a word from the State Examinations Commission, or the Department of Education, all we have learned so far, has been learned from what we have heard in the media.