Leaving Certificate music debacle

Sir, – I am utterly dismayed by the Secondary Education Committee’s extremely late decision to only permit Leaving Certificate music performers a six-minute recital or eight minutes if performing two instruments.

This recital is normally 25 minutes in duration.

If one-to-one oral examinations of 20 minutes duration are to proceed, why not the practicals where huge distances between examiner and performer can be created?

Where is the logic?

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MAIRE LEDWITH,

Haddington Road,

Dublin 4.