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Sinn Féin TD for Longford/Westmeath, Sorca Clarke, has noted the urgent need for legislation to address the various issues pertaining to the large employee base working from home during the present pandemic.

So we’re another week further on, heading towards May 5. However, in the last seven days, the Taoiseach, Simon Harris and various other people, some political, some scientific, have begun to say that there is no certainty at all that we will open up any area of life come next Tuesday, May 5.

THIS POEM is from my first collection, The Boy With No Face, which came out in 2005. If I remember right, I wrote it in 2000. It was inspired, or rather provoked, by walking down St Mary’s Road one evening.

Deputy Peter Burke has called on the Minister for Education Joe McHugh to give clarity to SNAs, many of whom have been told they will be redeployed in efforts to tackle COVID-19.

The Covid-19 pandemic has "highlighted the unsustainability" of the State exams "in their current form", and further exposes the "limitations of exams which place so much emphasis on a few weeks at the end of a student’s school life".

Since we last spoke, we have all been living through this never-never land of coronavirus.

With the coronavirus lockdown preventing students from accessing the books and documents necessary for their studies, third level institutions across Ireland should immediately introduce a 'No Detriment' policy.

It seems incredible to believe but it is only three short weeks since the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stood on the steps of Blair House in Washington and announced that all schools would be closing later that day. For parents who have been supporting their sons' and daughters' continuation of education over those 21 days it seems like an eternity.

An element of education relief has been afforded to local Junior and Leaving Certificate students following the announcement by the Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD, that those who were due to sit the now cancelled oral and practical performance tests will be awarded full marks for this portion of their exam.

Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD has announced the cancellation of oral and practical performance tests of the state examinations - which were originally scheduled to take place from Monday, March 23 to Friday, April 3.