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There was no shortage of A students in Kilkenny this week as some 1,000 excited pupils flooded into schools around the county to collect their Junior Certificate results.

As Leaving Cert students continue to toil away through their final year exams this week, the unfortunate incidence of cheating has raised its ugly head. Responding to the discovery of a number of cases of cheating by students in some of the earlier exams of both the Junior and Leaving Cert, the Irish Second Level Student Union (ISSU) has called for any student who may have witnessed cheating to report it to the relevant authorities.

Of the 55,000 Leaving Certificate students who began their exams on Wednesday, some 1,000 of them were from Kilkenny. There are also some 18,000 Junior Certificate students who began their exams this week.

Today more than 6,500 students in schools across Galway will take their seats for the second day of the Leaving and Junior Certificate examinations.

TEN GTI art portfolio preparation students have been accepted to the National College of Art and Design, with two of the students - Emma Finn and Sylwia Starkowska - scoring 950 and 915 respectively out of a possible 1000.

The green light has been given for a new Gaelscoil na Cruaiche in Westport, Beverley Flynn TD has been informed.

Longford/Westmeath Oireachtas members will go back to school today, Friday, when they pay a visit to students at Templemichael College Longford.

Last week’s Cabinet reshuffle has left the role of the Minister for Drugs vacant and has effectively sidelined the national drugs strategy at a time when we need to put every effort into tackling Ireland’s drugs crisis, according to Castlebar Fine Gael town councillor Ger Deere.

The countdown to the Junior and Leaving Certificate has begun, with just 100 days remaining for students sitting their State exams this summer.

A school in which all subjects are taught through Irish in an attractive encouraging environment. That is the environment that is created at Scoil Raifteiri, Castlebar.