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Yeats College hosted its inaugural NUI Galway careers event at a parent and student evening which took place at the college last week.

Yeats College is now taking bookings for its intensive course which prepares students for the admissions test for entry to medicine in Irish universities.

After two months of waiting, 3,107 Galway students are waking up this morning contemplating their future path after receiving their Leaving Cert results yesterday. With first round CAO offers not published until Monday, many will be facing a few more anxious days before they learn if they have gained entry into their chosen course. Two Galway students will face no such quandary however, as Ciaran Doyle of Craughwell and Ruth Cormican from Oranmore were among 10 students in the country who achieved eight A1s.

Waterford’s number one provider of students to Irish universities, Yeats College, Waterford will sponsor a series of educational seminars focusing on preparation for the senior cycle.

As the exam season approaches, oral examinations will be taking place over the coming weeks in the language subjects. A great deal of emphasis is placed on the spoken element of the language examinations, with between 20 and 25 per cent of the marks allowed for the oral element. A strong performance in the oral examinations can set students up for an excellent overall result in Irish, French, German, and Spanish. It is important, therefore, that students spend time preparing for their oral language examination. While students cannot predict what direction their conversation may take, there are a number of common themes and techniques which can be utilised to help improve performance.

Yeats College has recently been recognised as the highest ranking school outside of Dublin to provide students to UCD. The college has performed extremely well on a national level, coming in 10th in a recent study of the top feeder schools to UCD for 2010.

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.

Yeats College provides fifth year, sixth year and repeat leaving certificate programmes to students from Kilkenny at their Waterford based campus, which is now only a half an hour from Kilkenny city with the opening of the new motorway.

Yeats College Waterford is holding several information evenings this year, and they encourage parents and students to come and meet their team and find out all about the Yeats College success story in Waterford.

Guth na n-Óg was originally set up as a youth club in the late 1940s. Some of those involved in its setting up were Páid McNamara, Fr Fitzgibbon SJ, Tom Walsh (who worked in O’Gorman’s), Seán Kirby, Paddy Gleeson from William Street, and Ivor Kenny. Initially they used to meet in the Arus in Dominick Street but they fell foul of the authorities there because they did not speak Irish all the time, so they moved to the British Legion building on Father Griffin Road (Where Yeats College was until recently). Each member got a membership card and a badge. They used to play indoor games and have music sessions, and eventually they formed a céilí band and held a céilí every Saturday evening. They also formed a marching pipe band which thrived for a number of years.