Person: Eamon Dennehy

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<p> Students Lydia Purcell and Mikala Hickey of Thomond Community College in Limerick who are doing their Leaving Cert this year. Picture: Brian Arthur</p>

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Could you write as Gaeilge about an octopus? Junior Cycle Irish 'challenging' but 'fair'

Meanwhile, this year’s Leaving Cert engineering paper featured extended reality (XR), classic car restoration, delivery robots and foldable electric scooters

<p>ASTI general secretary Kieran Christie and president Eamon Dennehy, at the union's 100th annual convention at the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan</p>

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Teachers to debate whether to engage with Leaving Cert reforms

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Teachers oppose assessment of own students under Leaving Cert overhaul

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Schools will reopen on Thursday, department confirms

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Wedding of the Week: G'day turns into a great day for Tom and Joe

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Hamlet shouldn’t have spooked the well-versed Leaving Cert students

Leaving Cert: Poets line up nicely as Paul Durcan pleases plenty

Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Durcan were the poets examined in a higher-level Leaving Certificate English paper lasting over three hours.

Fri, 10 Jun, 2016

STATES EXAMS: Irish poets give completists the advantage

Students who focused on John Montague and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin should have been pleased to see both feature on yesterday’s Leaving Certificate higher and ordinary level English exams.

Fri, 05 Jun, 2015

Poetry in motion with Heaney on the double in Leaving Cert English

For higher-level Leaving Certificate English students, Seamus Heaney appeared for a second day running — but it was an unseen poem of his that made yesterday’s long Paper 2.

Fri, 06 Jun, 2014

LEAVING CERT: Ode to joy as Plath makes a return for candidates

The appearance of poet Sylvia Plath on Leaving Certificate English Paper 2 will have brought joy to a huge proportion of the 35,000 higher-level students yesterday afternoon.

Fri, 07 Jun, 2013

Junior Cert higher level maths paper ‘challenging’

WITH only about 5,000 Leaving Certificate engineering students in exam halls because of the rescheduled English papers, Junior Certificate candidates felt most pressure on day two of the state exams.

Fri, 05 Jun, 2009