CAO: Big demand hits Round 2 college places

Almost 3,000 students have been offered some of the limited remaining third-level college places this morning.

After heavy demand and strong take-up of earlier offers, only 20 engineering or technology honours (level 8) degrees are offering places through the Central Applications Office (CAO).

It made Round 2 offers online at 6am and only 11 medical school places are being offered, all of them at University College Cork. The only veterinary medicine degree, at University College Dublin (UCD), offered entry to just one student.