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CIARA Neary from
Buncrana and Samuel Hutchinson from Gleneely were
Inishowen's top performers in the Leaving
Certificate. Ciara scored a whopping 585 points
while Sam clocked up 550 points.
Principals across Inishowen expressed satisfaction
yesterday with the results achieved by students in
this year’s Leaving Certificate.
Crana College had one of its biggest ever Leaving
Cert classes and principal Liam Galbraith said there
was great excitement yesterday morning as pupils and
staff arrived to get the results.
“We’re delighted with the high level of performance
from our students, many of whom passed in subjects
they weren’t expecting to and many others exceeding
their overall expectations,” Mr Galbraith said. “I
congratulate the students and indeed their parents
for enduring with their sons and daughters during
this extremely difficult and stressful period.”
“The high flyers will always do well, and this year
was no exception, but I am particularly pleased for
the students who in the past might have left school
early but instead stayed on and got their Leaving
Cert,” Scoil Mhuire principal Liam Rainey said. “In
doing so, they certainly proved a point.”
“As usual, the pupils who consistently applied
themselves and had a good attendance record did
well,” Carndonagh Community School principal Paul
Fiorentini said. “However, the opposite is also the
true. If students don’t apply themselves, or are
absent for 30, 40 or 50 days during the school year,
then they simply cannot perform in the exams.”
With the results in the bag, students’ attention
will now, in many cases, switch to furthering their
education. Points requirements for courses in the
Republic of Ireland will be revealed on Monday when
the Central Applications Office (CAO) makes its
first round of offers.
“There has been a lot of alarmist talk in the media
about points requirements going up because of large
numbers of adults returning to education, but I
certainly hope that isn’t the case across the board
and that won’t be a restriction on college places,”
Mr Fiorentini said. “That would be unfair on this
cohort of students.”
“Given our geographic location, many of our
students, have applied to colleges in the North and
Britain and they have achieved the grades set out in
the conditional offers and will hopefully be able to
take up their places in the autumn,” Mr Rainey said,
adding that he was especially pleased for the
school’s first batch of Transition Year students to
sit the Leaving. “They were the first to undertake
TY three years ago and they have done very well.”
Ciara Neary achieved the highest points in Scoil
Mhuire, scoring a remarkable 585 out of a possible
600. Buncrana girl Hayley Doherty was the top
performer in Crana College with more than 500
points, while Carndonagh Community School hadn’t
collated all their results when contacted yesterday
and weren’t in a position to say who had achieved
their top result. |
