Tipperary ETB representatives at Croke Park for the ETB Week Awards on 27 March 2025. (L to R) Michael Brophy (Tipperary ETB), Catriona Brennan (Tipperary ETB), Annmarie Bergin (Scoil Ruáin, Killenaule), Joanne Treacy (Nenagh College), Cllr Roger Kennedy (Chairperson, Tipperary ETB), Eileen Bergin (HSE), Ruth Farrell (Tipperary ETB), Sinéad O’Mahony (HSE), Clodagh Kelly (Acting Chief Executive, Tipperary ETB), Liam McGrath (Director of OSD, Tipperary ETB).
There was success for Tipperary ETB in two categories at the annual ETB Week Awards, held at Croke Park yesterday (28 March 2025).
Congratulations to the Social and Therapeutic Horticulture Programme team, a collaboration between Tipperary ETB and the HSE in Clonmel, for claiming the runners-up prize in the ETB Excellence Award for Community. You can learn more about their work here.
Meanwhile, the Communities of Practice Excellence in Education team, including representation from all our post-primary schools, claimed a Highly Commended award in the Excellence in Education Award.
The Clonmel team was represented by the Course Coordinator, Ruth Farrell, as well as Sinéad O’Mahony and Eileen Bergin from the HSE team. The Communities of Practice team was represented in Croke Park by Catriona Brennan, School Development Support Coordinator with Tipperary ETB, as well as Annmarie Bergin from Scoil Ruáin in Killenaule and Joanne Treacy from Nenagh College.
Tipperary ETB was further represented at the event by Acting Chief Executive, Clodagh Kelly; Director of OSD, Liam McGrath; Chairperson of Tipperary ETB, Cllr Roger Kennedy; and Communications Officer, Michael Brophy.
In addition, well done to all the groups that submitted entries for each of the nine awards in recent months. The number of submissions is rising every year, and it’s an increasingly competitive awards environment.
On Wednesday, the ETBI held the official launch of its book ‘Education and Training Boards; Shaping the future, leaving no one behind’ at Buswells Hotel in Dublin. Well done to our Communications Officer, Michael Brophy, who has had his contribution published in the book, writing about the growth of apprenticeships in Tipperary, most notably at our site in Archerstown.
Tipperary ETB Chairperson, Cllr Roger Kennedy, made the opening address at both events in Dublin in his role as President of ETBI.
Well done to all our schools and FET centres across the county which held events as part of ETB Week, celebrating our core values of Excellence, Equality, Care, Community and Respect.
