‘I was close in Hebrew’: Eoin breaks record with 27 subjects

A SECONDARY school teacher is celebrating breaking the national record for the number of Leaving Certificate subjects passed in a single year, after he received successful results in 27 separate exams and honours in 17 of them.

Co Waterford man Eoin Jackson broke the previous highest record of 20 grade D or higher results he set in 1994 when he successfully completed 27 of 30 subjects in this year’s state exams.

During the gruelling attempt — which included 20 higher level and 10 ordinary level tests — Mr Jackson managed to study native speaking Swedish through the Google translator programme.