Leaving Cert PE in just 80 schools

More than half of the country’s second-level schools applied to offer physical education as a Leaving Certificate subject from September.

However, the Department of Education has chosen just 80 from the 369 that applied to take part in the roll out of the new curriculum.

It will be examined for the first time at the Leaving Certificate in 2020, and all schools will be open to teach the new curriculum from autumn of that year.