Jess Casey: Incredibly stressful year for students exacerbated by results fiasco

Labour Party leader Alan Kelly posed questions to Taoiseach about exams' appeal process.

Like a bolt from the blue at lunchtime yesterday, the errors with the calculated grades system first began to publicly emerge more than three weeks after students received their Leaving Cert results.

Facing questions in the Dáil from Labour leader Alan Kelly about the ongoing appeals' process for students, without fanfare, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced two flaws had been found in the much-maligned system.