No matter how cool and unfazed a teenager normally is, the Leaving Cert is an intimidating beast – a shadow keeping thousands of students in the shade even on the sunniest of June days.

The number of students sitting State exams has passed 140,000 for the first time. Students from over 800 post primary schools will sit down to English Paper One from 9.30am this morning.

Leaving Cert exams start on Wednesday morning (June 4) with English paper 1, and continue in the afternoon with home economics. The exams will run until Tuesday, June 24, finishing up with ...

Writing a comprehensive history of Polish citizens during the Holocaust is a hefty task. A Polish law that criminalizes any mention of Polish responsibility for or complicity in Nazi crimes makes i… ...

Amongst the thousands of this year's Leaving Cert students, one is a little bit different - Bernadette Hayden, from Co Kildare, sat the Leaving Cert Irish exam at 83 years old.

Tens of thousands of Irish students receive the Leaving Cert results today As more than 60,000 students in Ireland are receiving their Leaving Cert results today, Taoiseach Simon Harris has urged ...

LEAVING Cert students are to be given free school books — saving families around €500 a year — The Irish Sun can reveal. The Government has decided to support the proposal by Education ...

Week 1 of Leaving Cert 2024 is done and dusted. Let's hear from some of the young people who are sitting the state exams with thanks to the ISSU.

A record 136,160 students will sit the Leaving Certificate, Leaving ­Certificate Applied (LCA) and Junior Cycle examinations across the country today.

Why, for instance, is Leaving Cert English treated with such seriousness? The books lined up in this house needed to get my children over the Leaving Cert line would bring tears to a turnip.

The Leaving Cert is dead: long live the Leaving Cert. It has been around in pretty much the same format for a century. A heavy reliance on externally marked, written exams over three weeks in June ...

“True Life,” a collection of verse by the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, arrives in English translation almost exactly two years after his death.