Shannon Chamber Issues Call to Companies running Apprenticeship Programmes

Shannon Chamber Issues Call to Companies running Apprenticeship Programmes

  Recent discussions with St Patrick’s Comprehensive School in Shannon pointed to a dearth of knowledge about the types of apprenticeships open to second-level students as a career option.   Taking note of this, and conscious that there are so many excellent companies in the area that run apprenticeship schemes, the Chamber is organising an…

Shannon Organisations lead new structured TRANSITION YEAR PROGRAMME for Secondary Schools

Shannon Organisations lead new structured TRANSITION YEAR PROGRAMME for Secondary Schools

Secondary school students join Keith Reilly, Molex, Helen Downes, Shannon Chamber and Angela Higgins, Molex to commence their week-long TY programme. Photo: Eamon Ward.   Following months of detailed planning, a new structured week-long transition year (TY) programme was launched this week in Shannon, led by Molex Ireland in conjunction with Shannon Chamber and involving…

3,700 new jobs created in 2017 by Local Enterprise Office-supported companies with 15,000 jobs now created since 2014

5th February, 2018 Preliminary jobs figures for 2017 welcomed by Minister Humphreys and Minister Breen at the Annual Local Enterprise Office and Local Authority Forum in Athlone today Forum also hears of the need for LEO supported companies to be ready for the General Data Protection Regulation which becomes law in May 2018 A net…

Minister Ross launches new €500,000 fund to help SPSV drivers move to Electric Vehicles

Thursday 01 February 2018 Up to €7,000 will be available to Taxi/Hackney/and Limousine drivers to drive the shift towards electric vehicles. Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross TD, has today announced a new Taxi/Limousine/Hackney (SPSV) grant scheme, aimed at increasing the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) in the Irish taxi fleet. This new…