Chat rooms and blogs used in Leaving Cert probe
The State Examinations Commission (SEC) monitored the internet after receiving a phonecall from the principal of St Oliver’s Community College in Drogheda, Co Louth, to warn a breach may have occurred. The principal made the call on June 3 after being contacted by parents of two exam students attending two different Drogheda schools who said they believed a security breach had taken place in his school.
The principal said the students had named a poet whom they believed featured in English paper 2. The students had sat English paper 1 that morning and were due to sit paper 2 on the morning of June 4. It subsequently emerged names of three poets on paper 2 were known as well as a question on Macbeth related to “deception”.
