Emma O Kelly

Education Correspondent

Students sit in a lecture hall listening to a lecture

Focus turns to CAO offers following Leaving Cert results

For many students who received Leaving Certificate results today their focus is now switching to Wednesday's Round 1 CAO college offers, writes Emma O Kelly.

Analysis and Comment • 22 Aug 25

(Left to right) Ciara Gibney, Jessie Brennan and Jody Whelan receive their Leaving Certificate results, at The Donahies Community School in Dublin

Top marks down as Leaving Cert grade deflation takes hold

Leaving Certificate results have fallen this year as grade deflation takes hold after five years of artificially high outcomes.

Education • 22 Aug 25

Stationery items placed in a makeshift container

School secretaries, caretakers set for strike action

As schools prepare to reopen this week and next, trade union Fórsa has described as "deliberate and indefensible" the exclusion of many school secretaries and caretakers from access to a public service pension and public sector terms of employment.

Education • 21 Aug 25

How will grade deflation look for Leaving Cert results?

With Leaving Cert 2025 results out this coming Friday and CAO offers following hot on their heels, many students are wondering how the gradual deflation of results, which starts this year, will play out for them when it comes to getting a place at college.

Education • 17 Aug 25

School uniforms in a shop window in Limerick

Call for Govt to expand back-to-school allowance

Children's charity Barnardos has called on the Government to expand eligibility for the back-to-school allowance to help more parents meet the cost of kitting out their child for the school year.

Education • 06 Aug 25

Set dancing is being discovered by a new generation in Ireland

Set dancing wheeling in new generation of participants

In the back room at Mary Mullen's bar in Galway city, three musicians with fiddle, mandolin and banjo are belting out music and around 30 young people, all in couples, are dancing.

Nationwide • 02 Jul 25

Eight primary schools to close permanently from today

As primary schools across the country close today for the summer holidays, eight will be shutting their doors for the last time.

Education • 27 Jun 25

Calls for guaranteed employment for new radiographers

Student and trade union representatives have called on the HSE to guarantee employment to student radiographers and radiation therapists graduating this year.

Health • 25 Jun 25

ASTI to use dispute processes over senior cycle reforms

Second level teachers' union the ASTI has said it will instigate dispute process mechanisms to seek to advance the "significant" concerns of teachers regarding senior cycle redevelopment.

Education • 25 Jun 25

What impact will the changes to Senior Cycle have?

Plans to overhaul how Leaving Certificate students are assessed will be discussed by the leadership of the ASTI teachers' union at a two-day meeting in Killarney which begins this afternoon.

Education • 24 Jun 25