Thousands of students to receive CAO offers today


TENS of thousands of third-level hopefuls will receive the offer of a college place later today. The Central Applications Office is due to issue Round One offers to individual applicants from early afternoon and will publish this year’s cut-off points on its website from 2pm. More than 83,500 have applied to the CAO this year. […]


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Minister Harris urges students to avail of CAO reduced fee before deadline


Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD is encouraging students to get their CAO applications in before the reduced fee deadline. Anyone applying to the CAO can avail of the reduced fee of €30 until Saturday, 20 January. Applications made after that date will have to pay the standard […]


Sowing the seeds of our foodie future at ATU


By Róise Collins LAST week the Donegal News spoke with Dr Elizabeth McKenzie, a lecturer in Culinary Arts at Atlantic Technological University’s (ATU) Killybegs campus about Donegal’s sprawling food scene. This week we paid a visit to her classroom and spoke with her students, aspiring professional chefs, who are the future of the county’s cuisine. […]


Minister Harris congratulates students on receiving their Leaving Cert results


Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD today congratulated students as they received their Leaving Certificate exam results. Almost 62,000 Leaving Cert students will be able to access their results online from 10am this morning. CAO offers for college places are due to issue on Wednesday. Advertisement Speaking today, Minister […]


Leaving cert results will be released tomorrow


TOMORROW is a big day for thousands of pupils across the county who are waiting patiently on their Leaving Certificate results. The Leaving Certificate 2023 results will be available on the Candidate Self Service Portal (CCSP) at 10am tomorrow morning, Friday, August 25. Principal of Deele College, Raphoe Mr Joe Boyle said students will get their results on the online […]


ATU Donegal shows ‘positive increase’ in CAO offers


THE number of CAO offers from Donegal Atlantic Technological University (ATU) in Letterkenny has seen a significant increase. It’s the first time CAO offers have been made since ATU (formerly LYIT) received university status earlier this year, making it one of Ireland’s largest multi-campus universities. Merging Galway -Mayo IT (GMIT), Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) […]