Walking tall: Three Cork students top Leaving Cert results table with nine A1s

Alan Good and Niall Murray

Susan Spillane, Laura Hurley and Peter Barrett, who are all friends, despite attending different schools, were astounded to see nine higher-level A1s on their results slips yesterday. Such high grades have only been achieved once before.

According to Cashman’s Bookmakers on Maylor Street, Cork, the odds of the top three students coming from the same county, attending different schools, but all knowing each other personally are 2,500/1.