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Nearly 90% of this year's Leaving Certificate candidates are opting to sit exams and receive accredited grades, according to figures published by the State Examinations Commission.
We often hear people telling us that the Leaving Cert was much harder in the past, but what were the exams actually like? Over the last few years we have collected Leaving Cert and Junior/Inter Cert exams, so people can find out. We were sparked into action by a Twitter-based claim by a friend who claimed to have had studied differentiation and complex numbers for Inter Cert mathematics in the 1980s (spoiler: they hadn't). We have collected many of the STEM exam papers from 1925 to present day. Why 1925? Well, that's the first year the Leaving Cert and Inter Cert were examined by the newly...
University of Limerick graduate composer to have song performed at Joe Biden inauguration Reporter: '); Leading Irish composer, Patrick Cassidy, a former attendee at the University of Limerick, will have his song, 'Proclamation' played at the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington DC today. Violinist Patricia Treacy, from Blackrock, Co Louth was invited to perform at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and chose to play ‘Proclamation’, which Patrick originally composed for the 1916 Centenary. Cassidy graduated from the University of Limerick with a BSC in Applied Maths in 1985 b...