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An A-grade student has taken the unusual step of selling Leaving Certificate notes, starting at €40 a pop, on the online auction site eBay.ie in order to help finance his third-level education.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has extended congratulations to Leaving Cert students who received their results this week. Deputy O’Mahony said it marked a hugely significant time in the lives of so many teenagers and he wished everyone well as they embarked on life after secondary school.

More than 57,000 young people received their Leaving Certificate results across the country yesterday and emotions were running high in Galway as anxious students collected their results in schools across the city and county.

With Leaving Certificate results due for release next week, students in Mayo are encouraged to contact an exam helpline which will be staffed by counsellors, on results day, Wednesday August 18.

The College of Engineering and Informatics at NUI Galway has announced details of a special entrance maths examination which will give students a second chance to pursue a career in engineering. The exam, which takes place on Wednesday August 25, is for students who achieve the CAO points for an undergraduate engineering degree course at NUI Galway but who have not met the obligatory maths requirement.

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.

The start of the Junior and Leaving Cert exams this week at last brings into focus what life is really all about — the next generation. Yes, all of us struggling to come through these difficult times being distracted by so many forces along the way — job losses, income reductions, tax levies, welfare cuts, education hikes, bank bail-outs, stock market crashes, foul tempers, and anxious states of mind, etc — are entitled to feel important too but really, our role is merely to lead by example.

As the 2010 Leaving Certificate examinations got under way this week a number of changes to exam structures and reference material were being proposed.

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.