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# Academic Ability

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600 points in the Leaving Cert, a master's degree and two goals in this season's Champions League

Dundalk midfielder Robbie Benson spent five years studying at UCD but his move to full-time football could hardly have gone much better.

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Sep 9th 2016, 7:47 AM

Definition of 'premature' should be reconsidered - report

Researchers have found that full-term infants who spend longer in the womb do better at school later in life.

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Jul 2nd 2012, 2:18 PM