Aveen is the toast of her school with 600 points

PRINCIPALS reported some of the best overall performances in years at schools in the South-East yesterday.

While straight A’s student Aveen Gorry from Rosberkin in Kilkenny was just 16 when she sat her seven exams, it didn’t phase her. She had the support of her mum, Mary, a teacher in her school when she went into the office at Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School in Rosberkin, on the Kilkenny/Wexford border yesterday.

The bright 17-year-old discovered she’d received top marks in Maths, Irish, English, French, Accounting and Business Studies, as well as an A2 in Physics.