Ms Andrea Feeney:

The media coverage reflects broader societal imperatives and perhaps contributes to or reflects the stress that is there in any event.

Over the past two years, there has been a huge amount of coverage on the leaving certificate because of the extraordinary circumstances, namely, Covid and the change. However, over the past two years, there has been no coverage of high achievers in August. In 2020 and 2021, there were no photographs on the front pages saying this is the student who got nine or eight A1s. It did not happen in either of the past two years. That is a change, because prior to that, it was part of the firmament that in August, there would be a picture of the students who got the highest results in the country. That has not happened in the past two years. It is healthy-----