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Thu 12 Dec 2009Secret move to transport State exam papers
POSTAL STRIKE:SECRET, NOCTURNAL operations were employed to deliver some Intermediate and Leaving Certificate examination papers to schools during the postal strike of 1979, State papers from the year show.
The documents also show the Department of Education believed telephones used to make arrangements to organise the examinations – in defiance of picketing workers – were being sabotaged and tapped.
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