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AS SOME 116,845 Junior and Leaving Certificate students prepare for their first day of exams this morning we thought some soothing numbers might ease their stress about the English papers.
The 53,749 Leaving Certificate students, 2,853 Leaving Certificate Applied students and 60,243 Junior Certificate students will have these figures, provided by the State Examinations Commission, to contend with over the next two weeks:
13 – That’s how many days the exams will last, with Junior Certificate Students finishing a day earlier.
6,000 – The total number of examiners.
3.1 million – The amount of examination papers in boxes across the country right now.
38 million – The staggering number of A4 pages in those 3.1 million exam papers. A gold star to the person who can tell us how tall the paper tower would be if we piled them all up…
105 - The total number of curricular and non-curricular subjects.
15 – The number of non-curricular language subjects including Dutch, Ancient Greek and Bulgarian.
80,465 – The amount of oral tests that will take place over the next fortnight.
1.9 million – The number of test items including scripts, art and craftwork pieces, practical materials like wood, journals and portfolios.
1 million – The amount of individual grades that will be generated.
12,679 - That’s how many appeals the Examinations Commission is expecting.
14 August – The date Leaving Certificate students will get their results. Junior Certificate students will have to wait until mid-September.
If you’re taking the exams today, all of us here at TheJournal.ie wish you the best of luck.
It has to be those brown trouts floating about.
In this day and age how is ecoli ( human sewerage? ) getting into the bay in sufficient volumes to impact these beaches?
Any ideas?
Is raw sewerage getting into the rivers or is it the ringsend plant?
faecal hand of faith I’d say.
I worked on a trawler out of Howth in the past.After witnessing the muck , filth and human waste we hawled up in our nets , I wouldn’t stick my little toe in any waters off Dublin. I apply the same rules to eating fish and shellfish from the same waters.
Did a microbiology project many moons ago testing for pathogens in the waters around Sandymount Strand. Suffice to say 20 years later I still wouldn’t even paddle in thyself waters. The Irish Sea is filthy which is highly regrettable.
‘Those’ rather
Fitz I grow up not 5 mins from the strand and never did we or anyone I know swim in it .You walked on it that was about it .
“Dublin city council have banned swimming from merrion strand” Is that so difficult rather than these stupid click bait headlines!
The outfall from Ringsend plant goes out 3km so imagine with dilution the amount of raw sewage that must go out for Ecoli to arrive back on shore. We will not be told but obviously the Ringsend plant is not functioning as it should.
The same people giving out , would also give out about sewerage treatment plants being built near them . Or paying for taxes to help upgrade existing plants .
They will bring in a White tax now.
Shite……
Folks this is not on. Please serioous answers , ideas. I will act on them.
1 ringsend plant
2 liffey
3 other rivers dodder, tolka?
Something needs to be done…any ideas?
it’s all the people bring there dogs for walks and not having any consideration for anyone by not cleaning up after the pets if your not willing to clean after there pets don’t have a pet
Hmmm no it’s not. The occasional dog crap left on the sand is not responsible for the high numbers of E. Coli and staph coliforms in the water. That’s our crap that’s causing that. Inconsiderate it may be it’s not the cause, you might look to complain also to whomever owns those washed up sanitary towels I see whilst walking my dogs. (Poo bags at hand at all times naturally)
Salthill beaches in Galway have been closed as well.
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