Irish abroad: driving for Meyers Contracting in New Zealand
Twenty-year-old Galway green cert student Jackie Minogue got more than she bargained for when she embarked on her four-month work placement to New Zealand last January. Hailing from a beef and sheep farm in Mountbellew, Co Galway, Jackie originally planned on going to work in New Zealand for four months and return to sit her green cert exams in Mountbellew Agricultural College in May. Like everything else, COVID-19 put her plans out the window, which resulted in Jackie having to stay in New Zealand and sit her exams virtually. Completing the green cert in Mountbellew Speaking to the Ir...