A statement from Guardian.co.uk.

We apologise to the staff and pupils of Kilkenny College, a boarding school in south-east Ireland, for mistakenly identifying it as a school that Saoirse Ronan left because teachers and ­students were giving her a hard time (A name to reckon with, 23 January, page 16, Weekend). Contrary to what we stated, Saoirse Ronan was never a student at Kilkenny College. We ­accept that Kilkenny College guards the interests of its pupils and regret any implication to the contrary.

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