Galway Bay fm newsroom - A student of Yeats College in Galway city is one of only 7 students nationwide to achieve the perfect result of 8 H1s in the Leaving Cert exam.
17 year old Lorcan Mulkerrin of Salthill completed the two year programme at the college, which is a private, co-educational day school.
57,000 students nationwide sat the exam, 3000 of them in Galway
Lorcan Mulkerrin is the only Galway student achieving the maximum 8 H1s.
He's the youngest in his family and he's planning to do Medicine in Trinity College Dublin, following in the footsteps of his brother and sister.
And, we'll have a special extended feature on the Leaving Cert results on FYI Galway from 5 this evening