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Clogher Road Community College Leaving Cert students Conor Hannah (18), Mya Mooney (17), Jake McCabe Cusack (18) and Aimee Smith (17). Photo: Frank McGrath

Laura Lynott

The students at Clogher Road Community College in Dublin were fitting in last-minute study for the Leaving Cert when we dropped by.

The atmosphere at the Crumlin school was relaxed amid the countdown to the most pressurised moment of a young person’s academic life.

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