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  A dog shattered my Olympic dream. A couple of weeks before the national swimming championships as I cycled home from school, he knocked me off my bike. At Barrington’s Hospital in Limerick the doctor squinted at the X-ray of my elbow, made doubtful noises and, taking no chances, plastered it. The 1956 Olympics would have to go ahead without the pleasure of my company. My mother smiled grimly, saying, “Forget swimming now and concentrate on your studies for your Inter Cert.” My father was more sympathetic and he bought a newspaper every day so that I could follow the internat...

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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...

'This is the first book I have written since my dad died," Ciara Geraghty says of her new book, the hugely entertaining Make Yourself at Home. "I wanted it to be joyful and uplifting. It served as such a great distraction to me, from the grief." Ciara's father Don died three years ago. "There was a lot of relief around his death, because he'd had dementia for so many years, but also, you're still grieving," she says of the contradictory nature of losing someone to the degenerative disease. "I kind of felt that I'd grieved him while he was still alive. But you know, time is a funny thing. Once...

'This is the first book I have written since my dad died," Ciara Geraghty says of her new book, the hugely entertaining Make Yourself at Home. "I wanted it to be joyful and uplifting. It served as such a great distraction to me, from the grief."