{"id":68833,"date":"2025-10-09T06:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/68833\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:11:12","slug":"junior-cycle-2025-results-sharp-increase-in-number-of-distinction-grades-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/68833\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Cycle 2025 results:\u00a0Sharp increase in number of distinction grades awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Molly Devlin, Issey Conachy and Katy Geoghegan, from St Vincent's Secondary School, Dundalk, Co Louth, celebrate after receiving their Junior Cycle results\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3e13f70b-4f29-4f70-8ff4-043d31e4f970.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Molly Devlin, Issey Conachy and Katy Geoghegan, from St Vincent&#8217;s Secondary School, Dundalk, Co Louth, celebrate after receiving their Junior Cycle results<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Over 73,000 Junior Cycle students received their examination results yesterday, with a sharp increase in the number of distinction grades awarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This is reflective of the adjustments announced by Education Minister Helen McEntee last April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Molly Devlin, Issey Conachy and Katy Geoghegan, from St Vincent&#8217;s Secondary School, Dundalk, Co Louth, celebrate after receiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,25666,6466,1556,61,60],"class_list":["post-68833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-deirdre-barry","tag-department-of-education","tag-helen-mcentee","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68833","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=68833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}