Mechanics school to close as numbers fall

AN apprentice training centre for mechanics is to be closed down after being allocated more than €300,000 of taxpayers’ money in the past two years for new equipment.

The 40-year-old centre at Davis College in Mallow, Co Cork, trains around 80 people year as part of a motor trade apprenticeship scheme run by FÁS.

The Department of Education allocated €200,000 in January for the purchase of new equipment at the centre, which had spent €105,000 on upgrading equipment in the previous 14 months.