High-scoring student managed to write play while studying 6 days a week for Leaving Cert

Dublin schools have cleaned up with seven out of 13 students receiving eight H1's in today's Leaving Cert results.

High-scoring student managed to write play while studying 6 days a week for Leaving Cert

A pupil who was one of the 13 to get the top marks in the country in the Leaving Certificate took no grinds but studied every week night and every Saturday for a year.

Jack Synnott, from Termonfeckin, Co Louth, turns 18 next week and is already plotting a career in journalism, once he takes Law and Politics in Trinity College.

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