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Leaving Cert Applied National Award Winners

February 5, 2025

Athboy Community School graduates Shannon Boylan and Josh O’Sullivan were recently presented with a Feargal Quinn Award for having achieved the highest possible grade in the Leaving Cert Applied State examinations in the 2023-24 academic year. The school is so proud that two students from last year’s cohort have achieved this prestigious award.

The Leaving Certificate Applied National Awards “Feargal Quinn Awards” are presented each year to those students who obtain the top results in the L.C.A. Examination of that year. Shannon and Josh’s final credit total is based on their performance in the Leaving Certificate Applied Examination over 5th year and 6th year, and they achieved full marks across all key assignments, task interviews and the written examinations.

The award is named after Senator Feargal Quinn, the first Chairman of the steering committee for the then new Leaving Certificate Applied in 1995. The students were presented with their awards recently at the Shamrock Hotel in Athlone at the L.C.A. National Conference Awards Night. Congratulations to both Shannon and Josh and their families from all at Athboy C.S.