{"id":474377,"date":"2026-05-30T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474377\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:44:08","slug":"watch-leaving-cert-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474377\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Leaving Cert &#038; Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Leaving Certificate begins for tens of thousands of students on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>We all have memories &#8211; or the occasional nightmare &#8211; about exam time and how it impacted our lives.<\/p>\n<p>We have been asking our newsroom colleagues to look back on their Leaving Cert.<\/p>\n<p>Today it&#8217;s the turn of our Washington Correspondent Jackie Fox, who celebrated her 18th birthday the day after her final exam.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to see Jackie look back at her Leaving Cert and share advice to students about to sit their exams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2025\/0531\/1515432-leaving-cert-and-me\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can see more of the series here including David McCullagh, Sharon Tobin and Brian O&#8217;Donovan.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leaving Certificate begins for tens of thousands of students on Wednesday. We all have memories &#8211; or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-474377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474377","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=474377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}