Leaving Cert Review - Maths Paper 2
Maths teacher at Bruce College, Sean O'Brien, tells Fiona Donnelly that the paper was very challenging for students.

Maths paper 2

Students sat the new look Irish Paper 2 this morning.  Students at both Higher and Ordinary level faced a Literary Section without any choice.  Micheal Landers, principal at Bruce College, says the paper at both levels was very student friendly.

Irish paper 2

Leaving Cert students sat the French paper this morning.

Janice Lynch is a french teacher at Bruce College, she says the paper at both Higher and Ordinary level contained very student-friendly text,  but she's told Cork's RedFM that there was some difficult vocabulary in the message section of the Ordinary level paper.


French

Leaving Cert students sat History this afternoon.

Vincent Foley from Bruce College told Cork's RedFM, that there were no surprises on both the higher and ordinary papers and there was a good choice of topics for students.

History

Leaving Cert students faced the Business paper this morning.

Gary Lynch, a business teacher at Bruce College, told Cork's RedFM that the paper at both Higher and Ordinary Level contained relevant topics but the paper was very content heavy and students found it difficult to complete the paper in the allocated time.

Business

Cait Cronin from Crosshaven won The Word on Cork's RedFM this morning.
She correctly guessed the missing word - "inane" - and bagged €3,280 - she's giving €280 of it to the CUH Children's Club.
Here's how she guessed the word:

The word

Mischa Barton is coming to Cork.

The former OC actress  will play  the lead role in the  stage version of Steel Magnolias - which  will run at the Cork Opera House from the 24th to the 29th of September.

Speaking to Cork's RedFM, Mischa tells us what we can expect from her character, Shelby:




The show will come to Cork Opera House from the 24th  to the 29th of September.

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Cork girl Kelly Forde was the latest contestant to be axed from Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model.

Speaking to Michelle Moran for Cork's RedFM, the 21 year old from Glanmire, describes her time on the hit model show.

Kelly Forde

Parts of Cork were torn apart in the summer floods.

Now, almost five months on - traders and home owners are still feeling the effects.

In a series of special reports being aired on Red Edition this week - Fiona Donnelly speaks to the victims about the slow process of re-building their lives.

This is the first of five reports:




Flood

Part 2 of RedFM's week-long feature on the aftermath of the Cork floods on June 28th

Floods part 2

RedFM's Fiona Donnelly speaks to Cork flood victims who find ways to try to prevent a repeat of the floods on June 28th.

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