A compulsory exam for junior doctors has been cancelled due to a computer glitch.
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland was holding the exam in Walkinstown in Dublin this morning, when up to 170 candidates were told it was cancelled.
Many junior doctors had travelled from all over Ireland and the UK to the exam centre.
The RCPI says the situation is 'totally unacceptable' and it's trying to organise a re-sit in August.
The next official sitting date is October.
"We were forced to cancel it as a result of unforeseen technical failures that our service provider had informed us would be fixed during the morning," it said.
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin city | Image: © 2017 Royal College of Physicians of IrelandIt'll also refund costs around travel and accommodation for the exam.
"This did not happen. Our priority now is to re-schedule this exam as soon as possible and we will communicate the new date by the end of this week."
One junior doctor, who didn't want to give her name, says it'll have knock-on consequences on people's careers.
"In order to progress and do the next part you have to pass the previous one.
"So this is the part 2 - written.
"So in order to get through to the next part, and to then subsequently your higher specialist training, you need to pass this exam.
"People will be applying for a job in the autumn time and we need to have this exam on our CVs, so it does have knock-on consequences for everybody".
