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Two Dunmore students began their Leaving Certificate yesterday having attended school for 14 years and 2,299 days without missing a day.

Conradh na Gaeilge will host two intensive courses for Leaving Cert students preparing for the Irish language oral exam.

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

At the start of the nineties, with the last chords of ole ole ole croaking from our throats, and the whole world knowing that we were great craic, complete with a copy of The Joshua Tree under our arms, we sat down to see how we could all be taken more seriously across the world. For decades Paddy had been seen as the man with spuds growing in his fingernails, with the next fight just an utterance away. Now that we were universally acclaimed as being great fun to be with, all we needed to join the world was a bitteen of wealth and a bitteen of education — the two things our forefathers had fought for in the GPO.

Ballinrobe Community School has impressive achievements in the academic, sporting and cultural fields. It consistently scores a very high ranking nationally. It provides a full range of academic, scientific, artistic and technological subjects. As a progressive and innovative school it is well aware of the changing needs of its students, and the demands that society makes on them. It encourages their personal and social development through participation in sport, debating, music, drama, art, educational tours, projects and competitions.

Galway Leaving Cert students celebrated yesterday with most of the local secondary schools emerging with “outstanding results”.

A three week preparation course for oral Irish Leaving Cert students is being offered on Monday evenings March 2, 9, and 16 from 5pm to 6pm in Iorras Le Chéile Resource Centre, Main Street, Belmullet. Places are limited. Contact Kathleen on 097 81835 or 086 363 7548 for details.

Three former Loreto Secondary School students were among a group of 118 students from all over Ireland who were acknowledged for their excellent leaving certificate performances at a ceremony held in the University of Limerick Concert Hall on Saturday March 7.

Irish language consultancy and training company Gaelchultúr has announced that it is running intensive Irish oral preparatory courses for Leaving Cert students in 15 centres across Ireland this spring.

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