Take your hat off to Junior Cert brainbox

The niece of hatmaker to the stars Philip Treacy proved she had a head for figures herself - because Castleblakeney student Maud Treacy was one of only ten students in the country to achieve the maximum eleven A’s in this week’s Junior Cert results.The St Cuan’s College student was one of 3,185Galway students who sat the exams in June and who finallyreceived their eagerly awaited results yesterday.Brainy Maud is a niece of famous Ahascragh milliner, Philip Treacy, who himself is also a past pupil of St. Cuan’s College.According to St. Cuan’s Principal Eamonn O’Donoghue: “the students did extremely well. In the 13 subjects examined at all levelsthe students of achieved a success rate of 97 percent.