36,400 snap up first round CAO offers
The Central Applications Office (CAO) said the 36,392 acceptances received through its website up to yesterday evening’s deadline is up from 35,669 a year ago when 95% of offers were accepted online. However, the record uptake of places does not include postal acceptances which will be processed in the coming days, which could be up significantly following the technical difficulties experienced with the CAO site over the past week. The gardaí have been sent files about the attack on the site shortly after round one offers were made last Monday week, although disruption has been limited since midweek.
“We are pleased to confirm that there have been no incidents with the website over the weekend or today and operations remained unaffected,” CAO operations manager Joseph O’Grady said last night.
