Limerick East): The Bord Altranais minimum requirement for entry to nurse training is: grade C/C3 or higher in two higher level papers and grade D/D3 or higher in four ordinary or higher level papers in the subjects Irish, English, mathematics, a science subject and two others, accumulated over not more than two sittings of the leaving certificate.
In practice individual schools of nursing have operated higher requirements than the Bord Altranais minimum due to the numbers of applicants applying for places in nurse training each year. The requirements actually operated have also differed between schools.
The education requirement applying to the registration-diploma programme is based on the Bord Altranais minimum, adapted to take account of third level requirements. This education requirement is: grade C/C3 or higher in two higher level papers and grade D/D3 or higher in four ordinary of higher level papers in the subjects Irish, English, mathematics, another language, a laboratory science subject and one other, accumulated over not more than two sittings of the leaving certificate.