Future begins as students get a result

STUDENTS across Ireland were pondering their futures today after the nail-biting wait for exam results finally ended.

In its first hour of operation, the State Examinations Commission website was accessed by around 5,000 students checking their grades. Hundreds of school leavers and their parents also called exam helplines being operated by members of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors.

For many, the grades opened doors which could never have been imagined, among them being Liam Brady. The 20-year-old Dubliner had taken the Leaving Certificate twice at two different schools before finally making the grade this year at O’Connell’s CBS.