Marie Jackman

LiveLine with Kieran Cuddihy on RTÉ Radio 1.

Yeah.

Thanks, Ciarán.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, Ciarán, I picked him up after the exam and he was devastated.

He just said, I'm not talking about it.

I don't want to talk about it.

And he had an awful experience.

And I kind of felt, OK, maybe he froze because I hadn't been speaking to anyone else.

And if he had frozen at the exam, I would have accepted that because that does happen.

But when I saw later, you know, sort of the commentary on it, I was absolutely livid that this should happen to a young fellow like this.

and that he should come out feeling this way after an exam.

Similar to what the previous speaker said there, he had to try and interpret the English language before he could actually get to the maths part of the question.

And it threw him completely.

So I just don't know what sort of a person could put a paper like that together.

I'd love to hear from the Department of Education

Because like these people, my son, like the previous caller there, he has worked so hard.

He's been scoring so well.

He's been doing the past papers as well.

He's had grinds.