Two Offaly teenagers are among just five coopers active in Ireland. Corey Bracken and Dylan Healion currently work at the Tullamore DEW distillery in the county.
WATCH: Offaly s teenage coopers keep age-old tradition alive
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Two Offaly teenagers are among just five coopers active in Ireland. Corey Bracken and Dylan Healion currently work at the Tullamore DEW distillery in the county and recently featured on RTE News.
Make that a double. Two Co Offaly teenagers are turning their hand to an age-old tradition, as apprentice coopers at this Irish whiskey distillery pic.twitter.com/czAesE8VC3 RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 18, 2021
The pair are keeping the tradition alive in Tullamore while most other Irish distilleries use barrels from Scottish coopers. They are learning from head cooper Enguerrand Vandenbossche.
Offaly students win top award at National Final of the Student Enterprise Programme
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Two Offaly students have won a top award at the National Final of the Student Enterprise Programme.
Students from St. Brendan’s Community School in Birr have won the Natasha Lynch Commemorative Award for Excellence in Social Media award at the National Final of this year’s Student Enterprise Programme.
The Finals of the Local Enterprise Office initiative were broadcast virtually on Friday from Croke Park with An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Ambassador Derval O’Rourke speaking with host RTE’s Rick O’Shea, as students and teachers watched on from across the country.
Offaly photographers advance to next stage of prestigious astrophotography competition
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Two Offaly photographers have advanced to the next stage of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) ‘Reach for the Stars’ astrophotography competition.
The photographers feature in the online public vote that was launched this week by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, during a private visit to DIAS’s Dunsink Observatory.
The two Offaly photographers included in the online public vote are Seanie Morris and Tom O’Hanlon who are both from Tullamore. Tom has three pictures in the public vote. You can see them all below the links
Two Offaly adult learning initiatives shortlisted for awards
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Two Offaly based adult learning initiatives have been shortlisted for an AONTAS STAR Award.
The STAR Awards (Showcasing Teamwork, Awarding Recognition) are an awards initiative organised by the national adult learning organisation, AONTAS, to recognise and celebrate the work undertaken by adult learning initiatives throughout Ireland.
The two groups are:
The MenPower programme: developed to respond to the high numbers of men dying by suicide and to address the lack of engagement by men in community-based services, especially those with a mental health focus.
The programme also supports men experiencing employment-related issues. The programme combines a unique mix of mental health, adult guidance, physical activity and provides men a social space to explore how to be and stay well, barriers to achieving their goals, and how to plan for their future. They are shortlisted in the Health and Wellbeing cat