Over 1,000 fresh applications for CAO courses

More than 1,000 people have made fresh applications for third-level college courses in the past week.

While just over 900 were already registered this year with the Central Applications Office (CAO), 127 new applicants have put in a bid to get on to a course.

By last night’s deadline, 39,132 of the 52,374 people who received offers of a place last week had accepted, and a much smaller second round of offers is due on Thursday.