Classmates face trial for Leaving Cert forgery

A YALE University student and a former classmate are to face trial for allegedly sitting each other’s physics Leaving Certificate exams at a Dublin school three years ago.

Conor Dooney, aged 21, a third-year student at Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut, who has an address at Northumberland Avenue in Dun Laoghaire, and Stephen Boucher, also aged 21, of Old Bray Road in Foxrock, in Dublin, had been charged earlier with forgery.

It is alleged to have taken place during the Leaving Certificate physics examination at their former school, the Christian Brothers College in Monkstown, south Dublin, on June 16, 2008.