How Did You Do in Your Leaving Cert? Ireland 1983
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The wait is finally over as students receive their Leaving Certificate results.
Students give RTÉ News their reactions to the Leaving Certificate results.
One girl admits she was very nervous about her results.
In fact, the closer it got to the time of the results the worse I thought I’d done.
She had built herself up to do badly so,
It’s a shock to have done so well.
One boy who is off to call his parents with his good news, was sick to his stomach before he received his results.
You cant anticipate anything, you have to underestimate.
He will be going out celebrating his success, as will another girl who is also happy with her results. She will be going to Blinkers nightclub in the Leopardstown Racecourse,
To let out some of the tension that had been building up.
Not so happy with his results is a boy who needed 16 or 17 points to go to University College Dublin (UCD) to study computer science or commerce. He is planning to repeat his exams.
Hopefully do it again and get it right next time.
His friend is also somewhat disappointed as he did not get his first choice of Economic and Social Studies in Trinity College Dublin, however he hopes to have enough points to do commerce.
It’s not too bad, it could be worse.
Another girl who is delighted with her own results feels bad for those who are disappointed.
What can I say to them you know, like try again next year, you can’t really say, you know, anything to them.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 11 August 1983. The reporter is David Pate.
They are just gorgeous teens, all in their 50's now. I hope they are having happy lives.
I am thank you very much.
@@brendanmcgrane1577 Very good, that is what matters☘💚
59 now.
I was a drop out.
Left school when I was 16.
1983 age 19 I got married..
The idiot that I was..lol
They were so well spoken and very focused. Also four years later Computer Science was still a bit outside of the box!
I wonder what the framework for the course was.. I went into the secondary system a few years later and it was all BBC Computers, with one dusty, lonely, Commodore PET, in the corner.
There has been a bit of points inflation since! The last guy only wanted 16 or 17 points to do computer science in UCD!😂
Back then the maximum points you could get was 30. I didn't get close to that!!
1:45 Norma Foley was supporting the students even back in the 80s she's so deditcated 😍😍
People going onto study not based on their passion but decided on by how much they can remember in an exam, crazy to think still goes on today
Nail on the head. Absolute shambles of a system still in operation
I would love to know where these people are today and what advice they would give to young people now
I also went to school in Co Dublin (Dun Laoghaire) and also sat my Leaving in 1983 (I’m now 56!) What am I doing now? Well, I got 23 points (in “old money”) in my Leaving and went on to study civil engineering in Trinity. No jobs available in civ eng when I graduated in 1987 so I stayed on at TCD to do an MSc. The Irish job market was still dire a year later, so I accepted a job in London… and 34 years later I am still here, married to an Englishman. In a nice twist of fate, my (English-born) daughter has applied to study at Trinity this year, and is nervously awaiting the CAO offers day on 8th September…
Wow,thats amazing, i really hope she gets into trinity college, 🙏
@@catherineclarke844 it's amazing where life takes us..
@@catherineclarke844 . How did your daughter get on? Good I hope..
Computer science in UCD in 1983. Who would have thought
I was one of them that passed my leaving in 1983. Love to turn back the clock.
Still recording on film in 1983? Nice calm colour tone to the footage. Is there a watershed RTE year for moving to video reporting?
Yes 1985. Electronic News Gathering (ENG) was started by RTE then. While video recording was faster and could be transmitted over the airwaves, the picture quality back then looked awful, even on our low definition 625-line TVs.
Times were bleak back then, people have it a lot better now, whether they know it or not
Was just going to mention it myself. A lot of the class of '83 are in the USA or Australia now.
Deluded. At least Ireland was Irish then.
*There were less jobs back then*
*But at least those who stayed and worked hard could afford a house and a family*
*And at least their parents didn't actively steal their oppertunities from them by continuesly voting for globalism*
*And yes, at least the country was Irish back then also*
*There's more money, jobs, houses and oppertunities in this country than ever before, but it's all going to immigrants*
*Because Boomers voted to give it to immigrants instead of their children*
@Stuart Campbell no jobs in the 80s....no money to buy a house...plus the 13% interest rates might have put you off getting a mortgage..
The last 1 was a pure ride
He looked so disappointed though ☹
@“hoodlum priest” Go crawl back under your rock
You’re sick
Which schools are they at? There was a reference to Blinkers (at Leopardstown Racecourse… forerunner to Club 92) so they will be somewhere on the southside of Dublin…
How many emigrated..
Darth Vader interviewing
News just in the leaving cert is not the b all and end all many different avenues to what you want in life today I work with youth and work with homeless and I thank The Lord he directed me a different way done the Leaving Cert in 2002 and 2003 😂 lol just for good measure !!!
Yep...all in thier 50's now
They had it all in front of them then.
Now most of it behind them
@Patrick Brannon 😄
Since I got my Leaving Cert, not one employer asked to see it.
yeah because you don't need education to flip burgers
What school is that?
Is that the Kings? Co Ed...#clue
Back when speaking like Conor McGregor wasn't a thing, their accent seems clearer.
All my results were under water
Sound like D4s
Teenagers back then dressed like middle aged people do now.
Same people
@@ctorus haha
Classic style is refreshing compared to the skanky kardashian crap so many wear now.
@@DChristina yes & the tracksuit/buzz cut/trainers look for males is lazy, ugly and conformist
*There's more money, jobs, houses and oppertunities in this country than ever before, but it's all going to immigrants*
*Because Boomers in this video voted to give it to immigrants instead of their children*
*There's more than enough jobs, houses and oppertunities in this country for Irish people*
*But not for the whole world*
-- My grandparents came from Dingle. I'd like to retire there but I've been told it's not worth it now, due to immigrants that don't assimilate.
Always someone else's fault eh.. Foreigners, Boomers, Masonic Lodge, Kermit the Frog..
@@rerite2 Don't ever base a major life decision like the location of your retirement on UA-cam comments or social media in general. Visit the locality and talk to the locals to get a perspective on making the right decision for you.
@@rerite2
*The Irish diaspora is always welcome back in Ireland*
@@TattiePeeler
*How, is what I said not true*
*Boomers have sold their childrens future to immigrants*