Week three of Leaving Certificate 2016 blasted off with references to a spacecraft visiting Pluto and the Large Hadron Collider project in Switzerland.

A fifth-year pupil and fashion designer from Cork has shown off her talents on Patrick Street this weekend. 

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was upbeat at the 15th Young Social Innovators awards ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

There was delight for students all around the country — but particular elation for an exclusive club of just six who got 12 higher-level As in their Junior Certificate results.

The doubling of failure rates in higher level Leaving Certificate maths is not a cause for concern, says Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan.

David Glynn was the top Leaving Certificate student of 2015 — with an amazing nine higher-level A1s.

He was supposed to take to it like a duck to water but this little duckling goes quackers every time his webbed feet get wet.

I am writing to you on behalf of my Transition Year class, W5, of Mount Mercy College, Model Farm Road. 

The wait for CAO offers is not a worry for a young woman who will soon be winging her way to Germany to further her career as a violinist.

Students from Co Clare who worked to raise awareness among teenagers on how to stay safe online were yesterday named the Young Social Innovators of the Year 2014.

Self-awareness and self-defence were strong themes among stage performances by teens showcasing their work to highlight social issues.

A teenage violin virtuoso has taken a huge step towards a career in music after winning the country’s largest classical music competition for second-level students.

Three families, nine children and just one day missed at school between them across more than a century worth of classes — and counting.

If this was an All-Ireland, both Tipperary and Cork would each be celebrating three-in-a-row right now.

I am writing to you on behalf of Mount Mercy College girls’ school in Cork about the murder of Mariora Rostas and the lack of disgust and uproar after her gruesome treatment and death under Ireland’s gangland criminals.

MY friend Sarah Boland had a dream: to get a book published.

IN HIS address at the Cork Chamber Business Breakfast on December 20, the President of University College, Cork, Dr Michael Murphy stated that “there is extensive anecdotal evidence of many of our brightest students emigrating after completing Leaving Certificate for overseas education, and never returning”.

CLAPS and cheers heralded their arrival and while it wasn’t all a song and dance, students plumbed, painted and plastered as they saw a shell transform into a first-ever home for three generations of a family that had lived in a dark shack.

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl from Cork has won the prestigious National Concert Hall Young Musicians’ Award, which came with a €8,000 cheque.

STUDENTS are spending a week in a wheelchair to highlight the effects of disabilities on young people.

TOP marks in the Junior Cert went to Cork, which has claimed five of the eight students with 12 or more higher level As in their exams this year.

EDMUND O’HALLORAN (St Francis College, Rochestown) wants to join his Leevale clubmate, Patrick Maher, at the world junior championships in Canada and yesterday he took another step towards fulfiling his ambition when he got his schools campaign off to a flyer with an emphatic victory in the 110m hurdles at the South Munster Schools championships at the Cork IT Track in Bishopstown.

THEY’VE studied side by side for the past 14 years, but twins Kim and Kelly O’Brien have left the schoolyard together for the last time.

A PLAYER eligibility issue involving defending Irish Senior Cup champions Pembroke Wanderers threatens to overshadow the Dubliners’ quest to retain the trophy when they lock horns with Cookstown at Belfield on Sunday (1.15).

FIVE students who never missed a day of school for 14 years have been honoured for their achievement.

Full marks in this year's Leaving Certificate went to students in Kerry, Cork and Dublin.

KERRY football star Tomás Ó Sé and his long-time sweetheart, Hillary Nic Eoin, both 29, got married this week and didn’t tell their families until the last minute.

THE battle of the banks kicks off today in Dublin, with two Cork schools in the AIB Build a Bank final.

A TIGHTLY fought quiz up to the very end resulted in a win for Mount St Michael’s School, Rosscarbery, with 106 points in the latest heats of the TCH All Ireland Schools Quiz last night.

Alan Good and Niall Murray

NON FEE-PAYING schools provide equally high numbers of undergraduates to two of the country’s leading universities as fee-paying ones, figures show.

FOUR students were on top of the world after getting eight A1s in their Leaving Certificate yesterday.

A TEACHER who publicly challenged the manner in which her union, the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, was conducting a national dispute two years ago, was immediately ostracised and bullied by a majority of colleagues.

A TEACHER forced to resign after being bullied by her colleagues for criticising the union, won a landmark ruling yesterday, when the Employment Appeals Tribunal ruled she was constructively dismissed.

YOU won’t get a better position in Bishopstown than Wilton Avenue.

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