Learners and students from the ETB’s College of FET, Cappamore Campus, and Coláiste Iósaef Community College recently got to show off their blacksmithing and sporting skills for the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD.
The launch of ‘Creating Connections’, an exhibition by two emerging female artists, Aoife Carroll and Aksana Sasnouskaya, took place at the Belltable Arts Centre on O’Connell Street. Guests from the arts community in Limerick and family and friends of the talented artists, gathered to help celebrate the exhibition’s opening night.

Pictured at the recent Salon Culinaire at IFEX at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast were: Head Mentor and Chef Will King; College of Further Education and Training, Hospitality Campus learners: Louise Casey, Olga Lezdina, Megan Watkins, Kate Neilon, Alicja Porowinska, Artjoms Ivanovs; Chef Instructor, Kieran Shaughnessy and Bernadette Enright, Manager, College of FET Hospitality Campus.
Learners and apprentices from Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board’s College of Further Education and Training, Hospitality Campus were delighted recently as they took home multiple awards at this year’s Salon Culinaire at IFEX, at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast.

Students Michael Dike, Isabel Madigan , Magda Maj and Damien Bourke with Gerry McAnaney (President FAI) pictured at the official launch of a new Partnership between Treaty United and local secondary school Thomond Community College.
This month marked the official launch of a new Partnership between Treaty United and local secondary school Thomond Community College. Thomond Community College is one of eighteen community colleges across the region under the patronage of Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. This exciting new development aims to become a nursery for the emerging soccer talent in the Limerick area, providing a high standard of facilities, coaching, training equipment and a structured environment that will enable the holistic development of student athletes.

The Class of 2027 pictured with Mr Gerard O’Sullivan (Principal), Mr Ger Lynch (Tallybrooke Civil Engineering), Mr Fergus Quinlivan, Ms Éanna Ní Lamhna (President of the Tree Council of Ireland), Mr John Kelly (School Completion Officer), Mr Peadar Collins (Chairperson of Crann Trees for Ireland), Mr Brendan Fitzsimons (CE of the Tree Council of Ireland).
The school community at Coláiste Chiaráin fully embraced this year’s National Tree Week (March 20th to 26th) with staff and students planting 2,000 native Irish trees throughout their campus. The theme of this year’s National Tree Week was ‘More Forests for a Greener Future’.

Garrett Landers, Garrett’s Quality Butchers, Elaina Fitzgerald Kane, Woodlands House Hotel & Spa, Adare, and current President of the Irish Hotels Federation, Eimear Brophy, ETB Further Education and Training Manager, Pat Maunsell, Prinicpal, LCFE Mulgrave Street Campus, Hilary McCann, Head of Business and IT, LCFE Mulgrave Street Campus and Nick Whittome, MD of NTES pictured at the recent Enterprise Morning at LCFE Mulgrave Street Campus.
Last Thursday saw the return of the popular Enterprise Morning series at Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board’s College of FET, LCFE Mulgrave Street Campus.

Inspiring the next generation in a CNS classroom: Shelagh Graham, ETB Director of Organisation Support and Development; Ciarán Crowe, former principal; George O’Callaghan, ETB Chief Executive; and Donncha Ó Treasaigh, ETB Director of Schools.
Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board has welcomed the announcement from the Department of Education to facilitate greater availability of multi-denominational schools across the country. The Schools Reconfiguration for Diversity process will support the transfer of primary schools to multi-denominational patrons.
The 9th annual ‘Moving On’ Seminar took place recently for those in the Youthreach and Community Training space. The annual event gave learners lots of inspiration, guidance and support and helped to prepare them to embark on various progression pathways into Further Education and Training and employment.