The possibility of Leaving Certificate exams going ahead as normal is still "a live and viable" prospect, according to the General Secretary of one of the country's secondary school teachers' unions.
Speaking on RTÉ's This Week programme, Kieran Christie, General Secretary of the ASTI, said they hear the worries and stresses of students and they are shared by all teachers up and down the country. "We would favour the ordinary Leaving Cert, to the extent that it possibly can, with possibly some adaptions, would go ahead," he said.
Mr Christie said one option that is being considered is "a sort of recognition" that it is still a viable and live prospect that a Leaving Cert can go ahead.