Diarmaid Ferriter: No easy solution to the points race dilemma

This year the CAO issued round-one offers to 55,221 applicants, a measure of the increase in student numbers and third-level options in recent decades

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the death of pioneering educational journalist Christina Murphy, who from the early 1980s had responsibility for education coverage in The Irish Times. Murphy, however, became something more than that; as countless students and parents were dealing with the complications of the Central Applications Office system, established in the late 1970s, Murphy responded in detail to their individual queries, on the phone through a dedicated helpline as well as on the page and through numerous school visits and speaking engagements.

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