Confidential documents used by Leaving Cert oral examiners were leaked while students were being tested across the country writes Joe Leogue.

Murroe Boher captain Louise Crowley hopes her side can help repay supporters with a win when they play Roscommon’s St Ciaran’s in the Tesco Homegrown All-Ireland Junior Club Championship final on Saturday.

A bar has been criticised by a parents group after it told Leaving Cert students the pub would be serving alcohol on the morning they received their results.

Louth 1-14 Westmeath 1-9

While attending a prize-giving at an all girls’ grammar school in Belfast recently, I was astonished at the exam results.

Limerick manager Brian Ryan does not think his side will be affected by the long lay-off since their Munster final replay win over Waterford on July 23.

Contemporary notes, topical issues, and everyday experiences were reflected in exam papers as diverse as economics and music yesterday as Leaving and Junior Certificate students approached the end of this year’s examinations.

Kilkenny 3-21 Cork 0-16

I WISH to register my anger and frustration at the Department of Education’s intention to reduce language support teachers by 250.

THE examiners who set the papers for the State exams obviously do so much earlier in the year than when the thousands of students receive them.

THE downturn in the technology industry should not discourage young people from taking up college courses in this area, business leaders have warned.