Restricted courses: It’s difficult when everyone around you is going, ‘oh, you’ll get in’
Students typically apply for restricted courses earlier in the CAO process
‘Even the canteen lady knew my name at the PLC college. Everybody is so close-knit’
Lana Dowling was ‘lost’ for a long time in secondary school, but PLC courses proved a huge help in building her future
‘Imagine if my two kids ended up in TUS as well and they’re looking at their old man walking around’
Having begun a tertiary degree at 45, David Faulkner is proud of being able to say: ‘I am able; I am capable’
‘They called me and I went for the interview ... They just needed my Leaving Cert results’
The tertiary degree route is one student Saira Mughal highly recommends to others
‘Mum is in tears, she can’t talk’: Student who left school in second year gets 625 points in Leaving Cert
She studied the Leaving Cert course through online grinds, which she worked to pay for, and through the use of free online teaching videos on YouTube
Advice for first years: ‘You don’t find yourself at university, you kind of create yourself there’
Bel Aghedo has completed her first year of a law degree at University of Galway
Are you too late for campus accommodation? What should you do now?
On-campus housing can be both expensive and difficult to secure
How can incoming students get the best out of their first year at college?
Making the library a second home can pay dividends when exams and assignments fall due
Back-to-school issues: the best starting age, PE problems, school refusal and teenage vapes
Conversations with Parents: A panel of experts convenes to discuss the big issues of modern schooling and parenting
Talk to any mother trying to manage the summer juggle and you’ll hear ‘exhausted’ and ‘frazzled’
I’m also experiencing a familiar unease at the thought of the return to school
Life as a twin: ‘My mother had myself and my twin sister when she was 37. I had my twins at 37’
To mark International Twins Day we spoke to twins and parents of twins, including a woman who has given birth to three sets
Cover bands: The serious business of pretending to be someone else
Musicians who imitate famous performers are particularly busy during the summer festival season
Should young people with a part-time job contribute to the household budget?
Are we doing young people a disservice if we don’t expect them to contribute once they’re earning?
Are school mum friends real friends?: ‘They all disappeared’
A pal of mine was lamenting how contact with mothers of her children’s schoolfriends had dried up. So I solicited other mothers’ experiences
Get away with the gang: 13 staycation choices for big family or friend groups
Supersizing it? These holiday spots, from Kerry to Fermanagh, are ideal for big groups