STUDENTS should not lose their sense of perspective or worry too much if one or two exam papers go against them, a teachers’ leader has advised.

Best friends Gabrielle O'Donoghue and Roisin Ryan plan to celebrate in style after both got eight A1s and two other friends achieved the maximum 600 points as Leaving Cert results were announced today.

Nervous teenagers who are anxiously awaiting their Leaving Certificate results were warned today not to stress over their grades on their own.

ORGANISERS of the Junior and Leaving certificate exams being taken by more than 116,000 students from this morning are confident there will be no repeat of last year’s controversial rescheduling of a paper handed out by mistake.

A TEXT helpline aimed at young people with problems has been getting 120 appeals for help per day since its launch last August.