Winner Grainne Scullane of St Annes Community College, Killaloe, Clare pictured with her mentor Chef Diarmuid O Callaghan after winning the Limerick and Clare Education and Training Boards, Shannon Region Junior Chef of the Year 2022.

‘Shannon Region Junior Chef of the Year 2022’ Sparks TY Students to Careers in Tourism and Hospitality

The Shannon Region Junior Chef of the Year 2022 took place on Tuesday 17th of May at the Limerick Strand Hotel. This was the second year of the competition and it was back bigger and better than ever as an in-person event for the first time.

Artists Aksana Sasnouskaya and Aoife Carroll.

‘Creating Connections’ Portrait Painting Exhibition

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.

College of FET Hospitality Campus Team Excel at Prestigious NI Chef Competition

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.

Thomond Community College and Treaty United Launch Exciting New Partnership

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).

Coláiste Chiaráin Puts Down Deep Roots for a Biodiverse Rich Future

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.

LCFE Mulgrave Street Campus Welcomes Return of Annual Enterprise Morning

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.

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.

ETB Welcomes Opportunity to Open More Multi-Denominational Primary 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.