This year’s higher-level economics paper was topical and accessible, although the questions took their time getting to the point, teachers have said. “Ultimately, today’s paper was a student-friendly, highly topical paper which mirrored the current Irish and global economic climate and would have suited the current affairs-savvy student very well,” said Máiréad Farrell, an economics teacher at Glenstal Abbey.“Students enjoyed the opinion-style questions but mentioned that there was a lot of writing on the paper as they developed points, so they were writing up to the very last minute.”Diarmuid Canning, a teacher at St Andrew’s College, Booterstown and a member…