Dyslexia Ireland said the State Examinations Commission (SEC) and the Department of Education are "dragging their feet on this issue".

Patrick O’Donovan also said the statistics for this year’s Leaving Cert are ‘quite positive’.

More than 56,000 applicants were given an offer of a college place on Wednesday.

There were a total of 83,543 applicants to the Central Applications Office this year.

Calculated grades and the marking adjustment led to grade inflation during Covid, with attention now on when it will return to pre-pandemic levels.

Those who have already applied to the CAO can change their course choices up to 5pm on Monday evening

With it in mind that this is the first academic year to sit through State Exams having no previous State Examination experience, the Leaving Certificate students have only the practice of mocks and end of term exams under their belts.

The three young men face charges relating to the alleged incident in June 2019