CAO helpdesk 2026: ‘My son got 728 points but didn’t get medicine. Could he get it in round two?’

Welcome to The Irish Times CAO Helpdesk for 2026. Using the form below, you can submit any questions you have about this year’s process, from CAO points and Leaving Cert results, to appeals, offers, deferrals and more.Our education experts, Deirdre Garrett and Brian Howard, are online now to answer your questions before the CAO issues the first round of offers to candidates at 2pm. Please submit your queries throughout the day in the form below.1 minute agoMy daughter applied for Computer Science, Linguistics and a Language in TCD which was 531 points this year. The points have dropped dramatically to 393. Although she’s happy with her result, I wonder if you had a perspective on why points dropped much? Does it relate to the perceived usefullness of the course in the context of AI or are