Leaving Cert: Engineering (9.30-12.30pm) and English paper 2 (2-5.20pm)
Helen McEnteeon her Leaving Cert: ‘Let’s put it this way – I wasn’t aiming for 500 or 600 points’
Junior Cycle: Irish (9.30-11.30am) and geography (1.30-3.30pm)
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Student reaction: “The build-up is so much worse” – Relieved students after day one of the exams
Students Tammy Carter, Susan Walsh, Páidí Malone, Lucy McEvoy and Finn Skehill, looking over their exam papers at Belmayne Educate Together Secondary School. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
