A young Cork man is preparing to represent Ireland at the 2026 WorldSkills competition in Shanghai, China, later on this month.<\/p>\n
Leon Doody from Banteer, who started his career assembling products at EPS Group in Mallow and went on to complete a retail sales apprenticeship with the company, will compete in the retail sales element of the cpmpetition.<\/p>\n
Mr Doody will be him up against some of the most talented young people from around the world, in an international competition which is designed to showcase excellence in vocational skills.<\/p>\n
It was during his studies at Tipperary Education and Training Board that his teacher Mairead Clohessy recognised his potential and encouraged him to enter WorldSkills Ireland last year.<\/p>\n
Mr Doody rose to the occasion, securing a medal at the national competition while representing both Tipperary ETB and EPS Group.<\/p>\n
His performance subsequently put him in the frame for selection for Team Ireland and the opportunity to compete internationally in Shanghai.<\/p>\n
Mr Doody said he is excited to represent Ireland on the global stage.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou see soccer players representing their country abroad and you never think you could get the chance to do the same. So, this is like a dream come true in that sense.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
Source of enormous pride<\/p>\n
EPS Group products manager Anthony McCarthy said that Leon\u2019s progression pathway to representing Ireland is a source of enormous pride for the company.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeon has taken to sales like a duck to water. We are incredibly proud of the journey he has made in such a short space of time. From putting himself forward for the apprenticeship, to the way he applied himself to his studies and now representing Ireland on the international stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cLeon created this opportunity for himself by having the confidence to put his hand up in the first place and he has grabbed every opportunity since.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
“Everyone at EPS will be very proudly supporting him when he takes to the WorldSkills stage in Shanghai.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Cork man is preparing to represent Ireland at the 2026 WorldSkills competition in Shanghai, China, later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41434,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-617981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-education","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617981","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=617981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}