Sayonara school: Japanese chat-upline leads to A1

A JAPANESE chat-up line proved a winner for a teenager who began teaching himself the language three years ago to talk to a girl in his class.

Ruadhan Treacy, 18, from Newtown School in Waterford, was among 10 students who secured eight A1s in the Leaving Certificate.

“There was a Japanese girl in my year in school and I think I was looking up something in Japanese to say to her,” said Ruadhan.