Ray D'Arcy

Norway and Morocco and other countries like that.

But it's a big distraction.

There's the wall chart.

I have the wall chart there.

How many of the 104 games will you be watching?

And then it's in competition with Love Island.

So if you're in a house that has Love Island fans and football fans, you're in trouble there, aren't you?

Yeah.

Here's the thing that we've been talking about in our house for a while.

It's the exemptions.

So there's a number of pieces on it today in the papers.

Roughly 54,000 students sat Irish language leaving certificate exams last week, this week, last week.

Another 1,600 did not.

Most of them were exempted because they received their primary education outside the state.

Or half of them have learning difficulties.

So a report published this week by Conor Na Gaeilge and written by a professor in Dublin City University notes that almost half of students who get an exemption from studying Irish on the basis of a learning difficulty go on to take a modern language for the leave insert.

What are they getting at there?

So why are so many people seeking?

Now, obviously, there are genuine cases.

The implication in a lot of stuff I read is that some of them aren't so genuine.