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THE CAO DEADLINE closed yesterday at 5.15 pm with nearly 75,000 applications received.
As of that time, 74,499 applications had been submitted.
This is higher on 2013 figures for the same period, in which 73,063 applications were received.
But there is no need to worry if you didn’t manage to get your application in as latecomers can still be submitted between March and 1 May, however this is not open to HEAR/DARE schemes.
Leaving Certificate students and other non-restricted category applicants can apply to CAO using the late application facility which becomes available in March for a fee of €50 for online applicants and €80 for paper applicants.
Change your mind
If you are not sure if you put down the right courses, you can always change your mind.
A change of course choices facility will become available on the CAO website on Wednesday, 5 February for all registered applicants.
This facility is provided for restricted-category applicants such as mature applicants to add course choices and for applicants who want to include a restricted course on their CAO application. To carry out a change of mind there is a fee of €10.
However, most applicants will use the free change of mind facility which opens in May and closes on 1 July at 5.15pm, but there are some restrictions at that stage.
General Manager of CAO, Joseph O’Grady said:
Applicants who have already applied to CAO will have opportunities to change their course choices in May or June for no extra charge.If an applicant has forgotten to apply for a restricted course, or if they are a restricted-category applicant, they should avail of our ‘Change of Course Choices’ facility which opens on Thursday and is available until 1 March.
For more information visit the CAO website.
First published 1 February
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Bit of egg on the face of GSOC….
Omelette on the face of Sunday Times journo…
@kris, how is it egg on GSOC face, they were under surveillance or are you telling me you believe this pile of Cook ,
Lm group, they were not under any kind of surveillance. How on earth can you suggest they were?
As expected garda and gsoc pick out the phrases in the report that make them look good and ‘agree with the findings’ and ‘welcome the report’.
Beware of the voices LM Group…
The GSOC has proved to be a useless and garda controlled organisation.
It is in no way an independent watchdog of there are currently serving Garda members in GSOC.
GSOC needs to be destroyed and replaced with a fully independent body with actual power to seek out and repair faults and corruption in An Garda Siochana. It’s as simple as that.
the gardai get red thumbs pressing buttons hereon
Not Simon O Brien, still toughing it out , Imagine that lad doing an investigation, he’s been told , and told, but no he is still right, everyone is wrong, a major clear out in that place needed ASAP.
Fair play to you for gaining internet access in the padded cell Harold.
Hi harry. Hey listen do I get that summons yet from you?
See folks harry wants to sue me for a couple of observations I made about him. Still waiting harry
Noirin is looking at it, well all her senior management are in daily contact with GSOC and are cooperating fully with them, o wait there not, imagine the lads filling Noirin full of crap and letting her tell the Dail a pack of lies and then her having to go back in an retract your statement , time for a clear out
100% True.
When the politicians of all parties get their grubby hands off the appointment of senior Gardai, when an outsider is appointed Commissioner and when active Gardai are removed from GSOC then maybe a measure of credibility might be restored all round.
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