Unauthorised use of mobile phones and smart watches were a big factor. The State Examinations Commission has revealed that the number of students cheating during state examinations has more than doubled in the space of a year. As reported by Ken Foxe in the Irish Independent, 86 results had been withheld during 2024’s Leaving Cert cycle […]

1 year ago

The Education minister said there is ‘no shortage’ of available teachers for the new subjects. Two new subjects are set to be added to the Leaving Cert curriculum in 2025. The subjects – Drama, film and theatre studies, and climate action and sustainable development – will be available to students in 100 schools around the […]

1 year ago

“Péist? I mo cháca?!” Most Irish folks of a certain generation still wake up in the middle of the night, haunted by nightmares of a blind Brendan Gleeson scrambling around for his inhaler while he chokes to death on a train. If you’ve only just been reminded of the terrifying short film Cáca Milis by […]

2 years ago

Leaving Cert students will study the award-winning film for their upcoming exams Barbie was one of the biggest films to come out of 2023 and it’s continuing to have a major impact on our lives. Not only has Greta Gerwig’s film impressed film critics and cinema-goers, but it has also made it onto the Leaving Cert […]

2 years ago

Three 18-year-old women and two siblings died in the collision. Gardaí in Tipperary have revealed the names of the four young people who died in the “nightmare” road crash in Clonmel on Friday evening (25 August). The driver in the single-vehicle collision was Luke McSweeney, 24, while the passengers were his sister Grace McSweeney (18), […]

2 years ago

A man in his early 20s and three women in their teens died in the collision that has been described as “every parent’s worst nightmare”. Four young people have died in a road crash that occurred on Friday evening (25 August) in Tipperary. The single vehicle collision happened shortly after 7.30pm on the Mountain Road […]

2 years ago