Sir, - I strongly question your attention-grabbing headline "Girls beat boys in Junior Cert" (The Irish Times, September 13th). A "failure rate" table is added. Why?
At a time of young male disenchantment and increasing numbers of suicides, it is disturbing that your paper sees fit to report the huge efforts of all our young people in this way. As a mother and teacher of boys and girls I celebrate their confidence and their hard-won results as they strive to become valuable members of our society.
Your can do better than this. - Yours, etc.,
Fiona O Cleirigh, Orwell Road, Dublin 14.