Leaving Cert results released across Ireland

educationAug 21, 20263699

Students across Ireland received their 2026 Leaving Certificate results today, with results posted online from 10am and schools opening their doors for pupils to collect grades. The State Examinations Commission said competition for higher education remains intense after more than 95,000 applications were submitted to the CAO system for college placements. Average grades have fallen from pandemic-era peaks and fewer students achieved top grades, a trend that will increase pressure as the CAO processes applications and Round One college offers are expected soon. In Donegal more than 2,300 students completed the Leaving Certificate and a further 253 finished the Leaving Certificate Applied programme. The ASTI president publicly congratulated the Leaving Cert 2026 cohort. Reporting on subject patterns noted that physics and chemistry are widely seen as difficult yet continue to record relatively high H1 rates. A Leaving Certificate helpline is available for students and families seeking support today on 1800 265 165.

Dr Mary McAuliffe

@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

#leavingcert results day. A poll in journal.ie asks do remember your leaving cert results. Oh I do, I sweated blood to get what I needed to get into the course I wanted-history in Trinity. because I didn’t go to a local school I had to ring & have a nun read my results out to me-the joy & relief!

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Siobhán McElduff6

I was on Tory Island and had to wait for the post...

Antiqueight1

My parents rang and got the results for me and told me how I did.

Wesley1

That brings me back. Remember every bit of it, the feel of the flimsy paper, Maistir Ó hUallacháin looking over his glasses and instantly calculating the points total, then meeting others, checking in, then bumming around for an hour or two. www.thejournal.ie/leaving-cert...

RTÉ News

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"This is the first time that special schools will actually be having a results day... so it's a big deal for our pupils," said Clare Carr, principal of St Catherine's Special School in Co Wicklow.

19Yesterday

Cethan Leahy

@cethanleahy.com

Best of luck to the one person on Bluesky getting their Leaving Cert results today. Hopefully you didn't lose points on the Business Studies paper getting into a long thread on the difference between Quantative vs Qualitive data analysis.

11Yesterday

Brian O'Halloran

@playingwithdust.bsky.social

Nervously awaiting news of Eldest Son's Leaving Cert results, an anxious morning awaits

10Yesterday

AveTeresa

@aveteresa.bsky.social

Leaving Cert is supposed to serve the student, help them to whatever next step they want. It doesn’t always do that. One of the things this Govt has done that is good is strengthen alternative routes to further and higher ed and apprenticeships. If you know someone devastated by today’s results,

3Yesterday

Monica Byrne

@monicabyrne13.bsky.social

Wait. If Irish students don’t get their leaving cert results until today…that means they don’t know where they’re going to college until less than a month in advance???

720h ago

Micheál Martin

@micheal-martin.bsky.social

Congratulations to the more than 70,000 students receiving their Leaving Cert results this morning.

4Yesterday

Eils_G 📎

@eils1.bsky.social

Just thinking....I got my Leaving Cert results 41 years ago! Sweet jaysus 🫨

120h ago

Luke Daly

@lukedaly.bsky.social

Very best of luck to all who are receiving results today. You’ve gone through so much to get to this point and should be immensely proud of yourself This is but one chapter closing, you decide the next one. You are the author of your story. #spéirgorm #speirgorm #leavingcert #resultsday

Best of luck post wishing leaving cert students well wishes and offers alternative paths such as continue education, trades, having another go, take a break or follow their dreams with a well wish message and also the leaving cert helpline contact

1Yesterday

Irish Number Ones

@irishnumberones.bsky.social

This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch: 🔼 UP two places to no. 69 📈 419 weeks in total on the Irish charts ❌ NEVER number one in Ireland ❌ NEVER even in the Irish top forty One for Leaving Cert results night, no doubt www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA

221h ago

Robert Sweetnam

@rgsweetnam.zq.ie

Leaving cert results day! One happy son. He did alright.

2Yesterday

@ronandusty.bsky.social

I can't actually remember receiving my leaving cert results anymore. The day is gone. Fog of time etc. Hate that.

2Yesterday

dwmalone.bsky.social

@dwmalone.bsky.social

It's Leaving Cert results day, and the largest leaving cert group since 1995. Comparing to births about 17 years ago, it looks like we might have one more year of increased numbers to go, before things level off and then begin to decline.