Galway Bay fm newsroom - Over 3 thousand students across Galway have received a CAO offer in the past few minutes.
The figure of 3,034 is essentially unchanged from last year, and represents an additional seven applications.
Nationally, over 55 thousand people have received a first round offer this afternoon.
Half of students who were offered a Level 8 college place today received their first preference course, while 79 per cent were offered one of their top 3.
A number of courses in medicine and business have risen to over 600 points, due to grade inflation and a high number of CAO applicants.
Content Editor with Spun Out dot IE, Hannah Byrne, is appealing to students not to allow their Leaving Cert results define them:
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