The awards were presented to students who achieved the highest CAO points among Trinity entrants from their respective secondary schools, above a minimum threshold of 500 points.<\/p>\n
In total, 602 first-year students from across Ireland and overseas received Entrance Awards this year, with 67 awardees coming from schools in Munster.<\/p>\n
The Limerick recipients are Niamh Hogan (Limerick Tutorial Centre), Maeve Power (Scoil P\u00f3l), Callum Hughes (Glenstal Abbey School), Amir Al-Mukhtar (Ard Scoil R\u00eds), Luke Carmody (St Munchin\u2019s College), Mariam Yacoob (Laurel Hill Secondary School), Rachel Angland (Laurel Hill Col\u00e1iste FCJ), Nathan Prendergast (Villiers School), and Lanna Frawley (Clochar na nUrsulach).<\/p>\n
It also included Rejwanul Islam (Col\u00e1iste Chiar\u00e1in), Laoise O\u2019Dwyer (Col\u00e1iste Iosaef), Katie Liu (Castletroy Community College), Emma Jane Leddin (Gaelchol\u00e1iste Luimnigh), James Fleming (Mungret Community College) and Dylan Joshua Collins (Crescent College Comprehensive).<\/p>\n
The students, along with their former school principals, were invited to attend formal award ceremonies held in Trinity\u2019s Examination Hall between January 20 and 22.<\/p>\n
Congratulating the awardees, Trinity Provost Dr Linda Doyle said it was a \u201cgreat privilege\u201d to welcome them to the university.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey deserve enormous credit for the hard work and commitment that have brought them to this point,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have every confidence that they will thrive in Trinity\u2019s incredible academic environment and enjoy the creativity and fun of our 150 sports clubs and societies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr Doyle added: \u201cI also want to congratulate all those who have supported these students on their journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition to their parents and guardians, I want to acknowledge the dedication of school principals, teachers and wider school staff \u2014 both primary and secondary \u2014 who play such a vital role in bringing out the best in students during their formative years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Of this year\u2019s Irish award recipients, 393 are from Leinster schools, 67 from Munster, 42 from Connacht and 41 from Ulster.<\/p>\n
A further 59 awards were made to students from 39 countries outside Ireland.<\/p>\n
The Entrance Exhibition awards are open to students accepted into the first year of a full-time undergraduate degree at Trinity.<\/p>\n
Where more than one student from a school attains the same top points, all are eligible to receive the award.<\/p>\n
Awardees receive a certificate and a \u20ac150 book token.<\/p>\n
Past Exhibitioners include former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The awards were presented to students who achieved the highest CAO points among Trinity entrants from their respective…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4017,43],"class_list":["post-265944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jasmin-griffin","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}