Thursday 25 April, 2024

This Irish Times letter will delight anyone who ever sat the Leaving Cert

Well played.

OVER THE WEEKEND, The Irish Times published perhaps the most Irish letter of all time.

Recently, evidence surfaced that suggested WB Yeats remains are not in Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo as previously thought.

While an exhumation remains unlikely, it didn’t stop this Irish Times reader from making a quip that will delight (and haunt) anyone who ever sat the Leaving Cert.

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DAMN YOU, KAVANAGH!

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This Irish Times letter will delight anyone who ever sat the Leaving Cert

A Rathfarnham pub’s ‘rules’ went down a storm on the internet >

9 brilliant Irish comedians that prove we’re a nation of funny people >