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Local Career Role Models with Rónán Ó Dálaigh – Thriftify
[/ultimate_heading][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hayden Moore December 22, 2021 7:35 pm
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YOUNG people in disadvantaged communities all around the county are left to shoulder the burden of responsibility for the issues created through the lack of supports. That responsibility of formulating a future for themselves tends to fall directly on their shoulders, despite their environment not amply lending itself to prioritise education.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“I did well enough in the Leaving Cert but I found school very, very challenging,” he recalls.
“I would have been a bit older than other people in secondary school, I finished when I was 19 so I was a year older than people.
“I found it very, very challenging to be a guy who’s driving into school, had a job and then had to ask whether or not I could go to the bathroom.
“I was paying tax and voting, then going in there, sitting down and being shouted at by another adult.
“It was very frustrating and I ended up becoming very anti-authority.
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