Ah now.
Last night’s Leaving Cert Resultsegedden in Dublin.
From The Evening Herald.
Via Final Boss Media
Thanks John Gallen
Tag Archives: Leaving Cert
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MINISTER FOR Education Ruairí Quinn is set to review the impact of the new Leaving Certificate bonus points system amid increasing concerns it could have a distorting impact on college entry points.
Career experts are predicting a dramatic increase in points for many courses when the CAO publishes its first round of college offers next Monday.
The scramble for college places on many courses has intensified this year because of the strong results of so many students in higher level maths. The record number of students who passed the higher level paper (over 11,000) face into next week’s points race with an additional 25 CAO points.
Minister To Review Bonus Policy For Maths After Points Surge (Séan Flynn, Irish Times)
Two youths for sentence this morning at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for cheating in their leaving cert by impersonating each other(!)
— Conor Gallagher (@Courts_hack) July 3, 2012
And still manage to lead a productive life?
The exams start tomorrow.
Many well known faces got poor results but didn’t let it hold them back. Bang Bang, Eamonn Lillis, David Drumm, Dominic McGlinchey, Peig Sayers, Ewok, John ‘Preposterous’ Ryan, Bodger and Chompsky to name just a few
Care to share your experiences with our younger readers that may stop them from freaking out help ease their fears?
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
They know you know.
“So it is being reported that the CAO website is down due to a “cyber attack”. That’s bull, the site is down because thousands and thousands of students are trying to get onto to see if they screwed up their future and the idiot people who run the site didn’t build the server to be able to take that many people, so it crashed. Its not a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack people, the CAO web people didn’t think their server and hosting through. Looks like of you want your results right now, you’ll have to fork out €1.50 for a paper…”
Hmm. More as we get it.
The CAO website cao.ie crashed this morning following a suspected cyber attack. A message posted on the site says the site is unavailable due to maintenance work. Applicants are advised to try back later.
“Six hundreds points. My, that’s a lot of points. Hasn’t stopped you from working out I see, etc., etc.
Mary Coughlan with frightened 600-pointer, John Lenihan (hang on), this morning at Portmarnock Community School, Dublin.
At Portmarnock Community School today. From left: Sean McKenna (515 points), Catherine Healy (580 points), Ronan Atkins (580), John Boyle (555), Conor Traynor (480) and Brian Higgins (530).
They’re happy because they won the Points Race.
Except Conor, obviously.