This was well BC (Before Covid) but with schools back at last and facing into winter, the issue will emerge again. Speaking to their principal later however, she says the issue of trousers hasn’t been raised. They’re not even allowed thermal vests if they show above their blouses, they say. They don’t, and they’re regularly freezing, they tell me, affronted at the injustice. Sheltering at the Luas stop together, I wonder if the girls, who seem smart, fun and well-behaved – from Loreto Foxrock, their crests say – have the choice of trousers in their uniforms. Walking behind them you can almost see the goosebumps on their legs from 20 paces as the wind whips at the edges of their maroon uniforms. It’s a dirty day raining, cold, blustery. The large huddle of schoolgirls are coming out of the National Museum at Collins Barracks after a visit earlier this year. While a growing number of schools offer a choice of trousers, the majority of girls in secondary schools are stuck with the traditional skirt

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