An urgent appeal has been issued for teachers to correct Leaving and Junior Certificate exam papers with less than a fortnight to go before the examinations begin.

An urgent appeal has been issued for teachers to correct Leaving and Junior Cert exam papers with less than a fortnight to go before the examinations begin.

Students and teachers have rejected exam officials’ suggestions that time was not a problem in this year’s Junior Certificate paper in English.

STUDENTS who can afford grinds and other supports will have an unfair advantage at the Leaving Certificate until changes are made to how school-leavers are assessed, college leaders have said.

ONE of the most enduring mysteries in cinematic history has been solved.

OWNER Desmond Gibson from Co Down and breeder Thomas Power from Dungarvan, Co Waterford, produced Tinahely Show’s 2006 Red Mills Non-thoroughbred Two-year-old All Ireland colts/gelding champion, by Puissance out of Artic Gem (by Artic View).

AN OVERHEAD photo of a thistle presented itself as a thorny issue in yesterday’s agricultural science higher paper.