Approximate guide to the correct ages for entry

• Junior Certificate years age 12/13 Form 1, age 13/14 Form 2, age 14/15 Form 3

• Transition Year age 15/16 Form 4

• Leaving Certificate years age 16/17 Form 5; age 17/18 Form 6  

Click here to download the application form 

Technical information if you have difficulty downloading the form

The document is in PDF format. PDF stands for "Portable Document Format" and is a description applied to a standard developed by Adobe.  To view a PDF document you need Adobe Acrobat Reader®, or now called Adobe Reader®. Adobe Reader® is a free program which you can obtain on many computer magazine cover discs, or download it here

When you have used the Acrobat Reader® program to open the file, you can save it to your hard disk with the "save" command, or you can print it with the "print" command.  The file is not large so it does not take long to view or download.

IF THE LINK WILL NOT OPEN WITHIN YOUR BROWSER, RIGHT CLICK ON THE LINK AND SELECT "SAVE TARGET AS", DOWNLOAD THE FILE TO YOUR DESKTOP AND IT WILL THEN OPEN.

This is usually a problem to do with how Adobe Reader is configured.  If you would like to fix the problem permanently for all websites, close your browser and then open Adobe Reader, go to Edit, Preferences, select Internet in the left pane and then deselect the box which says "display pdf in browser".  The pdf files will now open automatically in Adobe Reader itself.  This problem is most often caused by Service Pack 2 in Windows XP.