{"id":61511,"date":"2026-06-05T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=61511"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:40:00","slug":"life-unfiltered-georgia-may-staunton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=61511","title":{"rendered":"Life Unfiltered &#8211; Georgia-May Staunton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life Unfiltered - Georgia-May Staunton\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flife-unfiltered-georgia-may-staunton%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week, a record 66,911 young people across Ireland sat down to begin their Leaving Cert &#8211; the highest number ever to sit the exam and for most of them, and the families watching on, it feels like the moment everything gets decided.<\/p>\n<p>This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria talked to Georgia-May Staunton, a 21-year-old from North Dublin who left school in 5th year, never sat the Leaving Cert, has since won a Lord Mayor&#8217;s Award, been selected for the Washington Ireland Programme, and is now studying Politics, International Relations and Social Justice at UCD while sitting on research panels with RCSI and King&#8217;s College London.<\/p>\n<p>They talk about what it took to find her way back into education and why the story we keep telling young people that points and CAO offers are the only road worth taking, is doing real damage. You can listen back here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a record 66,911 young people across Ireland sat down to begin their Leaving Cert &#8211; the highest number ever to sit the exam and for most of them, and the families watching on, it feels like the moment everything gets decided. This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria talked to Georgia-May Staunton, a 21-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":57124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[30138,1073,30137,1840,27973,26438],"class_list":["post-61511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-cao","tag-education","tag-georgia-may-staunton","tag-leaving-cert","tag-life-unfiltered","tag-maria-mchale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61512,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61511\/revisions\/61512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}