Leaving Cert Results: The success of your life will be measured in your own fulfilment, nothing else

Brian O’Flynn who gained seven A1S in last year’s Leaving Cert has left his third-level course but he says fulfilment is entirely subjective.

My first article appeared back in June when Leaving Cert students were just sitting down to their exams, warning that the system they were part of was utterly flawed. I was the student with 11 As in the junior cert, seven A1s in the Leaving Cert, gaining a prestigious scholarship.

Based on the hype around academic achievement, I should have been set for life. Instead I was trapped in a course I hated, having suppressed my true calling and fearful I had wasted my chances.