
Ailish Egan
Guidance Counsellor & Teacher at Coláiste Muire Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland, with 15+ years in the post-primary sector, specialising in Leaving Cert and CAO guidance.
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Oct 28, 2026
How to Fill Out the CAO Form Correctly | Part 2
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Ailish EganGUEST
yeah like it just depends on what the disability is if it was a physical disability like the age of the report doesn't matter that physical disability is as valid now as it was maybe 10 years ago or 5 years ago so you don't have to worry you have a copy of that report at home somewhere in the filing cabinet that makes sense Or, you know, you can get that report easy enough because it's not something that's going to change.

Ailish EganGUEST
The significant ongoing illness, a lot of the time that is kind of within a recent timeframe.
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How to Pick Your CAO Course (When You Don’t Know What You Want) | Part 1
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Ailish EganGUEST
have heard of horror stories of students getting courses that they love and they're really happy in them but they're doing a two and a half hour three hour commute every day to university and back and like that's tough that's trying on the body you know yeah So that and also I suppose parents like more often than not are very open to what their child wants to do.

Ailish EganGUEST
They're pushing their child into a specific area, maybe precariously living their life through their child.

Ailish EganGUEST
I don't mean that in a disrespectful way, but they know that that's a good career path.

Ailish EganGUEST
I can totally understand why parents are like that because I'm not a parent myself, but I know that from a parent's perspective, they're thinking, I want my child to be in a decent paid job.
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CAO Special Episode with Ailish Egan Guidance Counsellor
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So can you walk us through that appeals process and what parents need to know?

Ailish EganGUEST
So on Tuesday they had access to the grading component for each subject at 12:00.

Ailish EganGUEST
So that meant that they logged into their CSSP and they could see the breakdown of results for their written paper, maybe the project or the oral or the practical subject, whatever it might have been, right? So they saw the breakdown of each subject.

Ailish EganGUEST
And where a student is only a percent or half a percent off, that doesn't mean it's one mark and you're at the next grade.

Ailish EganGUEST
You know, it really largely depends on how much the grading component was worth.

Ailish EganGUEST
So, so if you have a project that's worth 50%, it largely depends on what grades you got in that practical component versus the paper.
