‘Leaving Cert won’t define me’: Proud dad Michael on his exam results

Not many Leaving Cert students sit the exam while contending with premature twins

Michael Normoyle, who received his Leaving Certificate results in Terence McSwiney College, with his partner Gemma Kelleher and their four-moth-old premature babies Charlie and Joey. Picture: Howard Crowdy

He sat his Leaving Cert as one of his premature twins fought for his life in a neonatal intensive care unit.

But yesterday, Michael Normoyle, 18, was able to bring his thriving miracle boys, Joey and Charlie, back to school with his partner Gemma Kelleher, 18, to collect his results, even though their focus was more on night-feeds and nappies than on CAO points.