Italian students complete lockdown Leaving Cert in Cork

Italian students Sabino Saraceno (front) and (rear left) Camilla Corti who come to Ireland on an International Student Exchange programme to study at Nagle Community College, Mahon, Cork. Also present at the school was Principal Jim O'Sullivan (at rear right) Picture: Larry Cummins

Two exceptional Italian teenagers stayed in a Cork school as their home country went into lockdown to complete their Leaving Cert throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sabino Sacareno, 17, skipped fifith year, squeezing the two-year syllabus into one, and was reaching 500 points in his pre-Leaving Cert exams after just six months studying through a foreign language at Nagle Community College in Mahon, Cork.