Leaving Cert students affected by Covid may be given a second chance to sit papers in July.
The Department of Education is pushing ahead with plans to run the State exams in June, and says it is the ”firm intention” of Education Minister Norma Foley that they take place.
But they have to factor in the possibility of candidates who may be ill with Covid, or who are isolating because they are a ‘close contact’, and who will not be able to sit some of their papers.
While the imminent arrival of vaccines is an additional tool in the battle against the disease, it is anticipated that the infection will continue to pose a risk in June.