Leaving a different mark
Do you need a brilliant Leaving Cert to get on in life? Not necessarily, according to some of the most successful people in Ireland.
For Cathal Gaffney, the opening of the envelope that contained his Leaving Cert results left a bitter aftertaste. Gaffney, now the chief executive of Brown Bag Films, did the one thing that you are told above all else not to do – he failed maths.
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