{"id":17386,"date":"2025-09-12T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17386\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:49:07","slug":"donegal-apprentice-gearing-up-for-worldskills-ireland-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17386\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal apprentice gearing up for WorldSkills Ireland competition\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A promising young Donegal apprentice is training hard ahead of the upcoming WorldSkills Ireland 2025 competition which takes place in Dublin next week.<\/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":17387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,15959,15960,11243,15961,61,60,15962,15963],"class_list":["post-17386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-donegal-apprenticeships","tag-donegal-etb","tag-donegal-news","tag-finn-valley-college","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mooney-boats","tag-worldskills-ireland-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}