Queen and Madness bring lighter notes to Leaving Cert music exam

Freddie Mercury on stage with Queen during the Live Aid concert in 1985. Their 1975 hit 'Bohemian Rhapsody' featured in the Leaving Cert music exam on Thursday. 

The appearance of ‘It Must be Love’ by Madness brought a lighter note to this year’s Leaving Cert music exam as the exams continued on Thursday. 

The 2023 higher-level music paper was “fair and balanced” and played to students’ strengths, especially students who had studied their set works in depth, according to Ciara Coleman, teacher with the Institute of Education.