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Is irish required?

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  • 21-11-2005 3:17pm
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    CorkMan
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    Hi, I will be sitting my leaving this year and I want to know is Irish required?

    I plan on doing computers at the college of commerce after I pass my leaving, and then getting into maybe CIT from that to do Software Development and Computer Networking, and eventually get a doctural degree in it.

    I have read the CIT college book and it says that the minimum requirements are 5/6 subjects with Maths and Irish OR English. So do I not need Irish?

    Also, would I need at least one foreign language, like French, or could I get in without that aswell?


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    Deadlocked
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    Yep im nearly sure it is. For 9/10 courses you need at least a pass in Ordinary.


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    Dagnir Glaurung
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    From the looks of it, you don't need Irish for that course. I wouldn't be 100% on it though, ring them and ask.


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    Funkstard
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    The only way you can know for sure is if you ring the college and ask them directly


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    segadreamcast
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    Deadlocked wrote:
    Yep im nearly sure it is. For 9/10 courses you need at least a pass in Ordinary.

    Every NUI college needs a pass in Irish.

    TCD, DCU and all the other IT's/uni's generally do not.

    (Here I am in DCU Economics, Politics and Law -with an E in pass Irish. The dead language, thankfully, isn't the 'be all and end all' that some would have you believe...)


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    Time Magazine
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    Trinity even accept Irish as a foreign language.

    And that course was number 3 on my CAO, Noel :).


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    geraghd
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    NoelRock wrote:
    Every NUI college needs a pass in Irish.

    TCD, DCU and all the other IT's/uni's generally do not.

    (Here I am in DCU Economics, Politics and Law -with an E in pass Irish. The dead language, thankfully, isn't the 'be all and end all' that some would have you believe...)

    Wow well done. Im sure you are flying in the course, so it just goes to show you dont need to excell at all subjects (particularly such practically frivolous ones like Irish) to do well and manage such a tough course. Intelligence isnt measured (though often assumed as such) by the Leaving Cert system.


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    Vainglory
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    You actually don't have to even sit the exam if you don't want to, it isn't compulsory.


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