Ms Sive O'Brien:

I was in a Gaelscoil in primary school and I absolutely loved Irish. I still do love Irish, I love speaking Irish, but I find that in a classroom in secondary school a lot of it is about taking down notes and memorising and grammar and I struggle so much with grammar and spelling. Even when I do learn it off, in an exam I can spell it wrong and it will look like the completely wrong grammar. I have fallen a bit out of love with my languages in school, definitely, but I still love speaking them outside school. In the classroom it has been a bit hard recently, especially with all the pressure of the leaving certificate and trying to get all the information in. It takes me that bit longer to understand and comprehend everything and I need to do a lot of catching up outside of school. In classrooms, I definitely struggle with languages but outside of classrooms I love languages.