11 lovely messages of support for Leaving Cert students

“We have seen businesses advertise €1 shots for tomorrow night’s Leaving Cert results celebrations, which simply will do no good”.

“The student assistance fund and the adjacency rates for grants are not sufficient to deal with the issues we will be facing in a few months time”.

“Thus the advice is to make use of this important asset”.

“While today is a very important day for everyone involved, it is also the beginning of the next stage of our young people’s lives”. If a student wishes to accept the offer they may do so online. “It is also essential that where someone gets ill or is hurt, they seek medical assistance as quickly as possible”, he commented.

She said that 16% of first year students either do not go into second year or change course.

Students are also being encouraged to watch their alcohol intake by liver specialist and president of the Royal College of Physicians, Prof Frank Murray.

“It is important that young people who consume alcohol drink in a safe way”. For many it is a confusing and hard system.

Nearly 58,000 students are receiving the results of their Leaving Certificate exams today.

The results are available in schools this morning, and online from midday.

Many will get the grades they need for university, but lots of others will be left disappointed. Overall more than 6,500 students have received one or more A1s.

“An invitation has gone out to all local Senators and Tds for the area to attend a public meeting to take place at the end of September at a venue to be decided to discuss the guidance cuts and to call for the full restoration of the service in the forthcoming year”. Students have many options available to them, from the traditional higher education route, to the hugely varied opportunities across the further education sector.

Many will seek out positions where there is direct contact with the public in some advisory role, whether a receptionist or a counsellor.

Betty McLaughlin, president of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors (IGC), said tomorrow was the day that “all sixth year students have worked towards – one of the biggest days in their school life”.