Eircom apprenticeship

the network is countrywide, so you'll be put where needed.

2011 intake stated east coast mostly, take Athlone as the middle of the country and to the right of that...

They try accomodate as best they can, but sometimes it wasn't possible. Majority of training took place in Portlaoise, Dundalk and Dublin, Dublin having the majority of the three (various locations around Dublin).

During the two years, majority were close to home work wise, some others weren't so lucky.

When training finished and people got "Field Technician" status, it was winter 2013/2014 (big storms)

Majority of the newly qualified apprentices were sent to the west coast, midlands and south.

This went on until at least April/May.

It also co-incided with a lot of the older technicians leaving on voluntary redundancy...

So it became the situation that they were the replacement technicians, travelling from Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Louth, Cavan, Lietrim, to the likes of Galway, Mayo, Cork, Kerry, Waterford etc... for the week to work then back home the weekend.

This intake, and the following ones, I suspect are the beginning of the back fill of required technicians, in those areas, I'd be very surprised if some of the training didn't take place in Cork or Galway this time round, but there is also the possibility to work with the tried and tested method of what happened before. There is also the possibility of not having the numbers in those parts of the country to make it viable, so it could be dictated by the recruitment process.

This goes for job location too, I would be surprised if there were wasn't more west and southern based roles this time round.
Again though, just speculating.