Jubilation among Galway’s successful Leaving Cert students
Almost 3,000 Leaving Certificate students in Galway city and county received their results yesterday – and despite them being available online from noon, most collected them in person from their schools.
Many students like to discuss their results with teachers who help tot up the CAO points and all of the schools contacted by this paper yesterday were more than happy with overall performances.
Yeats College might be based in the city but its 170 Leaving Cert students come from all over the county and further afield like Australia and Hong Kong.
Principal Terry Fahy said there were “scenes of jubilation” at the College Road school with two students receiving seven A1s. Both Jane Hynes of Clarinbridge and Abdul Rahman Tahir from Knocknacarra got 625 points each. Both want to study medicine.
The last girls-only class at Seamount College in Kinvara (they have gone co-ed) of 37 got fantastic results this year. Local girl Niamh McNamara received an outstanding result with 7 A1s.
Mary Kelly, Principal of Clifden Community School, said: “A significant amount of the class of nearly 80 received in excess of 500 points. I am very pleased overall and delighted with how they fared in subjects such as Maths, Construction Studies, Technical Graphics, Irish and English. They were such a hardworking class.”
All boys school, Garbally College in Ballinasloe’s principal, Stephen Reilly had his stats done by lunchtime. Of the 82 who sat the Leaving Cert plus the five who sat the Applied Leaving Cert, 17% of them got more than 500 points; 54% got over 400; 76% got over 300 and 88% got over 200 points. And two students got 615 points each giving the school their best record in recent years.
Another school which enjoys good results is Coláiste Chroí Mhuire in Spiddal where 35 students sat the exam. One pupil Dearbhail Ní Chaoimh, a local girl, got 6 A1s and 2 A2s. She intends to do medicine.
St Joseph’s College (The Bish) in the city was also happy with this year’s class of 150 all boys. Three of them got 625 points, two got 615 and Ciarán Doyle, principal, said it had been their best overall result in recent years.
Read more on this story in this week’s Connacht Tribune