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STUDENTS WHO ARE accessing the CAO website this morning in order to ascertain whether or not they secured a first round offer have been urged to be patient and refresh the website if they’re having problems.
A number of frustrated users have taken to Twitter to complain that the website of the Central Applications Office has not been working this morning as the first round offer for places at third level institutions are announced.
The CAO’s general advice is for users to refresh the website if encountering any initial problems.
Joseph O’Grady, Operations Manager from the CAO told Morning Ireland that the website was “very, very busy” this morning but added that it was running “really, really smoothly”.
But here’s a selection of tweets from frustrated users so far:
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I dun don’t tink dey gonna get in if dey can nut spk engleeeesh. Lulz OMG like whatverer n’ stuff
My parents had to sit on my bed. It’s destroying my family. Leave Brittney alone.
Totes amazeballs
My son logged onto the site at 7.45 this morning, and got in with no problems. God help NUI Maynooth, he’s off there next month.
lyke if u cry evry time!!!
<3
Looks like the CAO hired the I.T folks from Ulster Bank .
Once a year, every year.
Same story, 5 years ago
Telling people to constantly refresh is probably the worst advice you can give when a website is experiencing load issues! :/
Yeah, everyone knows you have to turn the interweb off, plug it out, plug it back in and reboost! I know cause I read it on t’internet.
In my day I think we checked the points in the newspaper and then received our offer and accepted by post! Can they not just get a newspaper? Or do they not know what that is?
Newspaper, that’s an iPod app isn’t it?
As if this is the first time it’s ever happened..
Destroying my family? a tad melodramatic. Its not like the offer will disappear because they dont login to the site
Must’ve been a super loop. As for the destroying my family hysteria: will somebody please think of the children!!
I thought that they only went live at 6am, why is the timestamp on these tweets 10 and 11pm
I hear those kids…I had the same problem checking the offers on Teletext ten years ago. Waiting for that tv screen to load was agonising!
As @wispa9, the person who wrote about her family being destroyed, I was being over dramatic on purpose. My family are all safe and well though, if you’re wondering. ;) And it was 6am so I’m sorry I couldn’t come up with anything better than that in my attempt at CAO humour. :L
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