Absorbing life skills - Many paths lead to a good career

It is hard not to agree with President Michael D Higgins’ weekend assertion that he believes the Ireland Skills Live exhibition, the first of which was held at Dublin’s RDS over recent days, “will in time be as important as the Young Scientist Exhibition”. Work, after all, is an ever-changing idea and there are many paths to realising worthwhile career and life ambitions.

The exhibition focused on the practical rather than the theoretical and this may give it an immediacy and relevance to young people trying to pick their way through life’s complications.