City student scores perfect Leaving Cert as students celebrate relief of results at last

A Galway student is one of nine in the country who achieved top marks in the Leaving Cert results.

Maura Morrison from Taylor’s Hill, who attended her local school, the Dominican College, got eight A1s and is one of eight who did so – only one student in Ireland secured nine A1s and he is from Wexford.

With her results, Maura has secured one of 22 places for overseas students in Cambridge University in the UK where she will study medicine.

Elsewhere around County Galway, school principals reported exceptionally good results this year as 2,892 students sat the Leaving Cert earlier this summer.

Eighty eight students also sat the Leaving Cert Applied which is geared at those who wish to continue in vocational employment.

There were spectacular results for students right across the county – one girl among 29 students in the Mercy College in Woodford got nine As. In the Irish language school, Coláiste na Coiribe in Galway City, which year on year returns fantastic results, one of the 48 who sat the exam got seven A1s.

Across the city in St Mary’s College, principal Ciarán Murphy said he himself was “a bag of nerves” waiting for the sixty students to come in and collect their results.

“We are delighted overall. One lad got all As but what we are really happy about is that we have a huge cohort of middle students who worked really hard and got the results they wanted,” he said.

Yeats College in the city reported excellent results too with Clarinbridge student, Fergus McCabe securing the maximum 625 points which allows him to study medicine. Finn McLoughlin from Woodstock scored an impressive 615 points and he is also hoping for a place in medicine. Eoin Coughlan from Moycullen was ecstatic with his result of 595 points.

See full story and more coverage with pix in this week’s Connacht Tribune.