Alison O'Connor: Spotlight on apprenticeships the bright spot of this year's Leaving Cert

For the sake of young people who often end up being a square peg in a round college hole, and our wider economy, apprenticeships are an option worth exploring

Student Alannah Lowry from Finglas pictured at the launch of the new Hairdressing Apprenticeship at Coláste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education in Kilbarrack,Dublin. Picture: Brian McEvoy

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will know that “we” are in the middle of this year’s Leaving Certificate exam.

It is being sat by almost 60,000 students, but we all hear so much detail about these exams it can feel as if we’re in there alongside them.