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Updated at 11.25am
EIRCOM HAS ANNOUNCED it will be hiring 300 candidates for its newly-launched apprentice programme over the next five years.
The scheme is open to candidates who have passed their Leaving Certificate.
60 new hires will be taken on each year, the company says.
A pilot apprentice programme ran in 2011, and 55 of the 75 participants who signed up for it are still in full-time positions with the company.
“Applicants will have the opportunity to work as Customer Service and Assurance Technicians where the primary focus will be on the maintenance and repair of equipment in eircom’s network to provide the highest levels of service to our customers,” a statement said.
“The structured two-year programme will provide on-the-job learning, one-to-one coaching and formal classroom training.
“Successful applicants will also receive a Level 6 FETAC Telecommunications Access Networks Technology Major Award.
Graduates
Meanwhile, a further 75 people are to be taken on as part of Eircom’s ‘Graduate Programme’.
That scheme will also run over the next five years, with the first new entrants starting in September.
According to the company, the participants will be divided into Eircom’s general graduate programme and its ‘specialised finance graduate programme’.
“Following the successful completion of the training programmes, top performers in both programmes will be offered full-time roles with eircom,” the company’s statement added.
More information is available at http://earlytalent.eircom.net.
Welcoming the announcement, Communications Minister Alex White said the new schemes were being launched on the back of an ambitious investment programme in infrastructure by the company “including the roll-out of high-speed broadband to 1.6 million homes by the middle of next year which, in itself will help create the conditions for further job creation in local economies”.
It’s part of an €18 million investment by the telecoms firm, which it says is “aimed at enhancing the company’s skills’ base and building an innovative, national communications network across Ireland”.
It’s the first-large scale sustained recruitment programme by the company in almost 30 years.
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What about introducing financial penalties along with increased sentences. Criminals paying substantial damages to victims of crime, even if that means seizing their assets or making them, in extreme cases, homeless. Holding parents responsible for their Under 16′s in order to minimise social crime. Violent rioters and social media outlets paying for burning buildings and garda cars etc instead of giving the taxpayer the bill. Hit them where it hurts most, just like they do to ‘victims’.
@BarryH: Not sure how the legal system works in that respect but wouldn’t that be a separate, civil case besides the criminal one to award a monetary fine?
@Athena: Most of the laws we have in place are leftovers from Brit rule. Irish ?legislators? couldn’t be bothered on updating them to suit modern society and then we have, as far as I can see, data protection rules, that seem to favour the people ie right / left wing criminals and social media sites, that aim to disrupt society instead of protecting society. If the legislators were doing their job they would make ‘exceptions’ to the laws.
E.G. The Gardai told Instagram to take down the online threats made to Simon Harris and give them the name of the culprit. Instagram replied that that would be in breach of the culprits rights. He is Taoiseach and can ‘ legislate’ Does Simon not think that the common man should be protected more than the criminal?????????
I want to feel sympathy for politicians who are abused but it is in their hands and their fault. They could save the taxpayer millions in libel cases.
About time, a huge step forward!!!!
For heinous cases involving fatalities of course the presiding Judge, having heard all the evidence, should be able to nominate/ sentence with a ‘minimal’ tariff
Life should mean life.
All well and good going forward,Helen nicely done. Maybe find somewhere to put criminals that get tru the revolving door!!!
And judges should be elected.
@AnthonyK: they are. We’ve devolved that role to our elected representatives. Or do you mean like the US system which has proven to more about politics then the rule of law?
@Paul C: Nolan??
There should be minimum sentecens for a lot more crimes. Now its a toss if you have judge Nolan for a suspended sentence or another one for a much harder punishment.
@hans vos: Just go online prior to your trial… he’ll prob give you a high five. A disgrace of an individual.
“minimum”—- not——’minumal’
@Buster Lawless: you’ll need to tell that to the likes of Judges Nolan and O’Donnell not us.
Ain’t much good if the likes of Martin Nolan won’t even lock them up on normal sentences!!
@Michael o connor: Don’t get me started… an absolute disgrace that he’s still on the Bar.
‘Life incommunicado’ in a communications age. I.e., never again permitted to use a phone, computer or any communication device. In this day and age, that would hurt. And take their shoes too. And toss their hair while you’re at it.
@Paul C: Judges should go before the electorate and show what they did to uphold the law and make the society better.
There’s no need for this, sure isn’t Dublin a safe city!
We need to build more prisons so criminals can be given proper sentences. Criminals with 50-100 previous conviction should not be walking the streets for a very long time. Also SA sentences in this country are an absolute joke. 8 years for rape is a ridiculous. I don’t blame some women for not reporting these crimes. Also we need far more consecutive sentences.
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