Deja vu as Cork team loses quiz final by same score as last year

CORK Leaving Certificate student Anthony Leahy is today overcoming the heartache of deja vu, after losing the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All Ireland Schools quiz final by the exact same score for the second year running.

The 17-year-old, who hopes to enrol in a law degree course in UCC this September, led the Kanturk-based Scoil Mhuire team – including his transition year brother Brian – to a second successive final in the highly competitive contest yesterday.

But despite a gripping fight-back from an at one stage gaping 14-point deficit to eventual winners St Nathy’s College of Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, the Cork school still lost out for the second year in a row by 92-98.