Brian Mooney
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1,158 appearances
15 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Brian Mooney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So effectively the pressure on the system is huge.
And it's been the second year since we've reduced the grades.
down from where they had stood for about four years, which was about seven percent over what they had been before COVID.
So last year they came down by an average of one.
So say for instance last year your average student might have got four to five additional grades.
This year three to four.
And then next year obviously you know, one further again.
So it's stopping.
Yeah, well if you look at it this way, Pat, there are fifty-five thousand people out there who who having got their leaving search results are in the CO process.
Not everyone who does the leaving cert looks at the CEO, so there are fifty-five thousand of them.
There are twenty thousand five hundred students who did the leaving cert previously in the same competition.
So for every five and a half students in this year, So this is
Exactly.
And it's always been as such, but it never mattered so long as everyone was on the same playing field.
Yeah.
But as we began to bring down the enhancement
Those people have had an advantage in terms of the fact that, you know, if you were three years ago, you possibly have two more grades added than
It it you know, start a course, drop out, take a gap year, do a PLC, whatever, a whole variety of reasons.
The the numbers, you know, we never highlighted them before, but they were always there.
But we're highlighting them now by virtue of the fact that if you have a previous result and going forward, as you say, you will have an advantage where, you know, you're really tight for the last place on the course.
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