Like thousands of other students currently sitting the Leaving Cert, Cain Hopkins, a 17-year-old from Dublin, spent a large portion of his final year at his desk, in front of a screen.
"This room is the only place I would be. My world shrunk," he told Prime Time in a video diary.
His friends, his teachers – even his football team, Shamrock Rovers – were rendered pixelated objects on a desktop screen, his connection to the outside world.
Cain is one of three students who have been documenting their Leaving Cert on camera for Prime Time.
Read more: https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2021/0617/1228791-leaving-cert-2021-a-lot-of-students-lost-motivation/