{"id":672046,"date":"2026-09-04T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672046\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:21:10","slug":"nearly-as-bad-as-a-title-fight-bernard-dunne-did-his-irish-leaving-cert-exam-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672046\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nearly as bad as a title fight&#8217;: Bernard Dunne did his Irish Leaving Cert exam this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">FORMER WORLD CHAMPION boxer Bernard Dunne got his Leaving Cert result last week after going back to take the Irish exam at the age of 46.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Speaking to RT\u00c9 Radio\u2019s Morning Ireland programme this morning about Katie Taylor\u2019s Croke Park fight, Dunne praised the boxer as a trailblazing role model for athletes of the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the end of the interview, he was congratulated on completing his Irish exam.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dunne said it was the only subject he failed in his Leaving Cert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt was nearly as bad as doing the world title fight, to be honest,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI needed to put that right and at the age of 46 I decided, a week before the exam, that I was going to do it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThankfully, we were able to survive a couple of low blows and get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORMER WORLD CHAMPION boxer Bernard Dunne got his Leaving Cert result last week after going back to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[284136,32544,18,42683,19,17,36456,26303,26779,284137,132],"class_list":["post-672046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bernard-dunne","tag-boxing","tag-eire","tag-gaeilge","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-irish-language","tag-katie-taylor","tag-never-too-old","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}