Word info

Leaving Cert

Noun

Meaning

(Ireland, slang) Clipping of Leaving Certificate.

(Ireland, slang) A student in their 6th year of secondary school.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

AN 18-year-old influencer who has a massive 332,000 followers on a social media platform has just moved into Ireland’s first so-called TikTok house, where she picked up her Leaving Cert results earlier this week. Source: Internet

Bridget, a Leaving Cert student, called in to make the point that the healthy portrayal of consent on the show was refreshing to see, and that the aim of the show is to be realistic, hence the title Normal People. Source: Internet

IT EMERGED EARLIER today that two errors were found in the code responsible for calculating the grades of this year’s Leaving Cert students. Source: Internet

Ben Murphy, now aged 20, initially told gardaí that he was coming back from an all-night party to celebrate his Leaving Cert results. Source: Internet

Can this Government pass the test of delivering fair Leaving Cert results? Source: Internet

He doesn’t have any Leaving Cert or Junior Cert classes on his books, but is trying to educate fifth year students using online technology called Microsoft Team. Source: Internet

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