COLLEGE applicants have been given the opportunity to seek entry to 150 third level courses as more than 21,300 people remain without an offer of a place to date.

An investigation is to be carried out into why the website of the Central Applications Office crashed earlier today.

The website of the Central Applications Office is now active again.

UP to 6,000 students may have been affected by delays in the Central Application Office’s (CAO) online application website this week which have prompted a major review of the system.