Hollie McCabe, who is serving an apprenticeship at Dublin Bus, in the company's Ringsend garage. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
What will decide Ireland’s future is not only education, technology and investment. It is skills. The ability of people to build, maintain and deliver will be critical in shaping our economy and society in the decades ahead.
Buses may be built in factories, routes may be planned on computers and funding may be approved in offices, but without skilled people to deliver, maintain and operate the system, nothing moves. Behind every bus is a person whose training and skills keeps the city running.
For Dublin Bus, apprenticeships have long been the engine room of success. Our depots are full of people who began their careers in our apprenticeship programme, learning directly from older colleagues who passed on their knowledge.
That intergenerational transfer of skill has been the quiet founda
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