It would appear that todays kids are not unique in being unable to stop themselves spreading the word... In 1969 seemingly it only took a day..
From todays IT
Madam, – Lest anyone get too carried away by the evils of modern communications or the falling ethics of students in relation to the Leaving Cert English paper drama, can I recall the old Intermediate and Leaving Certificate in 1969, when exam papers were stolen from the Department of Education?
Using the limited facilities that we had in those days – carrier pigeons, Morse code, semaphore, etc – the contents of those exam papers were transmitted across the country, accurately, within about a day. I remember the 49A bus being a particularly powerful communications hub in this regard.
As will happen in the current case, we sat newly prepared papers, but not before we had also sat the original ones with which we were then quite familiar. It was a long summer. – Yours, etc,
Prof BAIRBRE REDMOND,
Rathdown Villas,
Terenure,
Dublin 6W.