Ardgillan Community College in Balbriggan and Donabate Community College have signed up for the Design a Home for Everyone a CIF national competition aimed at attracting young people into the construction industry.
The Construction Industry Federation s Design a Home for Everyone Competition has seen entries from over 55 schools nationwide enter the competition. Ardgillan Community College in Balbriggan and Donabate Community College are competing against other schools nationwide.
Due to the ongoing lockdown, the deadline for entries has been extended to March 19th 2021 to allow schools more time to enter. To support students that have already entered, Class Of Your Own CEO, Alison Watson MBE will also deliver a webinar to assist schools who have registered their schools for the CIF Challenge. The webinar is designed to help students who are under pressure answer any questions and support them.
Company hoping to increase workforce by fifty per cent
A WEST Donegal company manufacturing components for some of the world’s most recognised car brands is looking to grow its workforce by fifty per cent.
Irish Pressings Ltd. – based in the Údarás na Gaeltachta Industrial Estate in Gweedore – specialise in the design and manufacture of tooling and metal pressed components for a range of engineering sectors, most notably automotive.
Ben McGonagle is Business Planning Manager at the company which has grown from a small start-up with three employees in 2005 to a very successful SME employing 75 people.
“We’re very proud of our Donegal roots and we’re hoping to attract local people who are looking to find work at home or may indeed be seeking a return to Donegal.
TY students at St. Patrick’s Comprehensive School in Shannon, Co. Clare have launched a new initiative called COMPanionship.
Led by the school’s TY students, LCAs and photography club Comp-Pix, COMPanionship is a project that hopes to comfort and connect the elderly in our area as they isolate and cocoon.
Teacher Jacquie Murphy explained: “Although created with local care homes in mind, we believe that the project lends itself to becoming a national initiative. Our Transition Year students were looking for a Digital Champion project and after some thought they came up with www.companionshipproject.org.
“This is a website created by students and staff to give the elderly a chance to experience something new through the eyes of our staff and students. Videos are taken from the point of view of the person to allow the viewer to feel like they are going on a journey with the person filming it. By not taking footage of the person filming, it also allows people to imagine they a