{"id":60272,"date":"2025-09-12T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60272\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:49:08","slug":"donegal-apprentice-gearing-up-for-worldskills-ireland-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60272\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal apprentice gearing up for WorldSkills Ireland competition\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A promising young Donegal apprentice is training hard ahead of the upcoming WorldSkills Ireland 2025 competition which takes place in Dublin next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ois\u00edn Alexander (20), from Cavan Lower, Killygordon, will participate in the welding section of the prestigious event. He is currently undergoing his apprenticeship with Mooney Boats in Killybegs.<\/p>\n<p>Oisin is pictured with Donegal ETB\u2019s welding instructor, and WorldSkills Ireland Chief Welding Expert, Cathal McGee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOisin is one of our former Finn Valley College students and now a Metal Fabrication apprentice,\u201d an ETB spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish Oisin and all the Donegal competitors the best of luck in their competitions next week\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Donegal apprentice gearing up for WorldSkills Ireland competition\u00a0 was last modified:  September 12th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A promising young Donegal apprentice is training hard ahead of the upcoming WorldSkills Ireland 2025 competition which takes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,43112,43113,669,18,43114,19,17,43115,43116],"class_list":{"0":"post-60272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donegal-apprenticeships","10":"tag-donegal-etb","11":"tag-donegal-news","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-finn-valley-college","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-mooney-boats","17":"tag-worldskills-ireland-2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}