Great joy at St Patrick’s Special School in Kilkenny as students pick up a special academic award for the first time

There’s huge joy in St Patrick’s Special School in Kilkenny where for the first time ever students are getting a special academic award. 

A programme developed at a national level for the senior cycle was delivered at the Kells Road premises and today those who completed that are finding out how they got on as more than 2,000 local students pick up their Leaving Cert results.

The KCLR Daily’s been hearing from those at the helm there;