Biology, Physics, and Chemistry...which two?

I do the 3 and if I'd to pick 2 I'd probably pick biology and chemistry... Even though I actually prefer physics to biology, biology is a lot easier! Chemistry is a requirement for a good few things as seen above and also massively interesting imo but if you don't like chemistry and love physics then just go for them, you can get into the vast majority of science course with 2 of any of the sciences

Seeing as you mentioned Pharmacy, you're going to need to do Chemistry. Even without it as a requirement, you'd be in trouble in a health science course without having done it.

I was in the same position as you - I knew I needed to do Chemistry, and another science (to satisfy course requirements), and I wanted to do History as I found it easy for the JC and thought it'd be interesting. I ended up doing History (instead of Biology), Chemistry and Physics.

I'm in first med in UCC, and I doubt I could've caught up with the Chem content without vast amounts of work. However I just read through the Biology book over the summer and that gave me more than enough understanding for Physiology and Biochem (Biology is of little use for Anatomy, which is a very minor thing in Pharmacy anyhow). My logic for choosing Physics was that I found it easier than Biology in JC Science and that'd it be mathsy.

My opinion would be to definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, do Chem. It's a great subject - especially if you got As in JC Science and Maths (I got Bs in them), and you'll need it

I'd also say that Applied Maths would be a great option for you - Physics is useful but not a requirement for this, but they complemented each other well in my case. Biology would be a good idea to do, and has a very high A1 rate given it's one of the most common subjects (loads of average students do it unlike Physics and Chem, yet the A rate is rather high)

History was great craic in fourth year - we did Dictatorship & Democracy which most people love. However the other topics are probably less interesting. Still, the NI topic gave me a really good understanding of the Troubles which is nice. You could always do it on your own outside of school, going to class taught me nothing really, and we did little work, the only thing you need a teacher for is the project.

TL;DR: I was in the exact same position as you in TY. I chose History instead of Biology and later regretted it, but it hasn't caused me any trouble in my course (but it cost me 20+ hours of my summer learning LC Bio). Chem was great (and necessary), and while I initially disliked Physics I loved it in the end, and doing it allowed me to do Applied Maths.

stay away from history if you don't like essay writing and i'd advise to pick all 3 sciences, if not then definitely Biology and Chemistry or Physics and Chemistry. My friend did both Biology and Physics once she was studying plant responses then about circuits both are really different

Biology is easy enough! Mainly rote learning and I find it pretty intersting! Would defo go with that! Personally I hate chemistry, it's really hard and there is no crossover between the two! Also don't base them off what you did for junior cert because it is completely different!

I do those 7 as well along with Applied Maths. Though many people would advise not doing all 3 sciences, it's really not that tough once you put your mind to it and do the required study(which isn't extreme). I'd say for me Biology is the easiest. Basically just learning off loads of definitions and understanding a few concepts. Chemisty's probably the hardest of the 3 but it's still very much manageable. Our teacher was saying that they had extended the course slightly so that we would need to go a tad bit faster than his normal teaching speed, but promised we would finish the course next year before the mocks.