Teen makes his dream become a virtual reality

Cian Clarke with his mother Pauline

The mother of a teenager with autism, who received his CAO first-round offer of a place on Ireland's first virtual reality degree course, is thrilled she 'stuck to her guns' in keeping him in mainstream education.

Cian Clarke is ready to become one of the first pupils of the Augmented and Virtual Reality degree course at Dundalk Institute of Technology after he attained 321 points in his Leaving Certificate.