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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015
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No place for young staff By AUDREY ELLARD WALSH
ONLY 18 out of the 1,200 people working for Cork City Council are under the age of 30. The figure was revealed by the council’s chief executive, Ann Doherty, who said that the loss of staff through retirement along with a recruitment embargo since 2007 presented a challenge to management at City Hall. “There are only a small number of people under the age of 30 and that’s a challenge. “This is not to say that anyone over the age of 30 is past it, but there are consequences of new people not coming into an organisation. “It is important to have new people coming in with new ideas,” she said. Ms Doherty, who took up the role of chief executive in
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Only 18 out of 1,200 at City Hall are under 30
Cork City Council Chief Executive, Ann Doherty. August, said that the problem existed across the public service.
“This is a problem if you speak to anyone across the public service, be it education or healthcare the story is the same. “Staff have had to be very adaptable and innovative to deal with losing people without replacement and that becomes deeper every year.” She added: “It’s necessary to have some managed recruitment to start dealing with the deficits in the skills base.” Ms Doherty highlighted the situation in a discussion on recruitment as part of a Network Cork meeting ‘Harnessing Opportunities in Changing Times’ earlier this week. ● Continued on page two.
Evening Echo, Friday,
March 13, 2015
How you can quit smoking
Life 27 ■ How one Cork family discovered the evening newspaper when they headed power of Cork’s favourite to Paris on a spring break
Vive la Echo!
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A hero welcomes heroes home! Roy Keane congratulates pupils of Scoil Eoin NS, Ballincollig, included are: Omar Alrajhi, Shane Usher, Alan Cronin, Wojciech Mundala, Bryan Smith, Lee Rossiter, Adam Summers, Keon Hardie, Milosz Nowak, Oisin Morin and Michael Gilmore, as they return home after winning the National EMC VEX IQ competition in Birmingham. Picture: Larry Cummins
Chance meeting with Roy Keane tops off Ballincollig boys’ UK robotics win STUDENTS from Scoil Eoin National School in Ballincollig were congratulated by Roy Keane after they beat the best of Britain’s young tech minds to win top honours at a robotics competition in Birmingham. The students, representing Ireland, were special guests at the UK finals of the VEX IQ competition at the NEC in Birmingham. The sixth-class boys faced off against 20 top British teams and swept to victory in all
categories with their self-built robot ‘Jaws 2.0’. They also qualified for the world finals of the VEX IQ in Louisville, Kentucky, next month. Arriving home at Cork Airport yesterday, they had a chance meeting with soccer legend Roy Keane who posed for photographs and congratulated them on the win. Principal Gobnait Uí Nuanáin said: “It is a phenomenal achievement for our wonderful school. We are incredibly proud of the boys.”