Saoirse Hanley: Whatever path the Leaving Cert results send you down, that’s the one for you. Any door that was closed to me led me somewhere better

Saoirse Hanley: Whatever path the Leaving Cert results send you down, that’s the one for you. Any door that was closed to me led me somewhere better

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So you’ve opened the envelope, or you logged onto the portal – I don’t actually know how people get their Leaving Cert results these days as it’s been a decade since I did mine and everything from the grading to the dates has changed. But however you got them, you now know how things went in those two and a half weeks of June. How are you feeling? Happy, I hope, or at the very least relieved that the wait is over.

I know, I know, there’s college places still to come, if that’s your plan. I do not envy you this week waiting to see if the number burned into your brain is going to be e