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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Irish Times</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Irish-exempt students sit for other languages</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">More than half of the students granted an exemption from studying Irish for the Leaving Certificate due to a learning difficulty over the last three years have sat or intend to sit other European language exams such as French or German, data from the Department of Education shows.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Provisional figures of this year’s crop of Leaving Certificate students show 2,297 students will not sit the Irish exam due to an exemption, but 1,326 of those intend to sit an exam in another European language.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Full story:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0414/1224268309255.html</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>