Work Placement Stories

Our TCPID graduate Dairine O Rourke delivers a wonderful presentation entitled My Good Life. In the presenttaion Dairine reflects on her time in secondary school, her experience as a student in Trinity College and her graduate internship and subsequent permanent role in Fidelity Investments.

Like everyone Coronavirus can be very scary to understand but for people with a disability it can be even more scary to understand. Some really useful insights and advice from our TCPID graduate and A&L Goodbody employee Tomas Murphy. Tomas includes excellent advice both for employers and employees.

This article includes a video and an interview with our TCPID graduate Dairine O Rourke. Dairine graduated from the Certificate in Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice in Trinity College Dublin in June 2018. She is now a permanent employee of our TCPID Business Partner Fidelity Invesments. Dairine is very much looking forward to returning to work in Fidelity once the current COVID 19 crisis is over.

Read an interview with our TCPID graduate Marian O Rourke about her time in Trinity College Dublin, her permanent role in Cpl Resources and how she is coping with the current COVID 19 crisis.

In a good news story during these difficult times, Luke Campion, one of our most recent TCPID graduates has just been offered a permanent contract with EY. Luke has been working with EY since finishing his course in Trinity College in June 2019. Luke has had a hugely positive impact on his team in EY since he started there and we are all very proud of him!. You can read here our interview with Luke and with some of his EY team.

Our TCPID graduate Stephen Ryan has recently been offered a permanent contract with EY after completing a 3 month Summer internship. Stephen first met his EY team in February 2019 when he started his work placement module. The placement proved to be a perfect fit. A huge thank you goes to Niamh Parsons, Aidan Walsh, Sandra Dawson and all the team for supporting Stephen so incredibly well since day one. Here is Stephens story.

One of our recent graduates, Mark Hogan has just been offered a permanent contract working with EY. Mark completed his 2018 student work placement in EY in the EY Global Trade team. He made such a great impression during this time there that he was invited back in June 2018 to complete a Summer internship within the same team. This led to an extension of his contract and most recently to a permanent role. We are all incredibly proud of him! Here you can read an interview with Mark and with some of his EY colleagues about his role in EY and the impact that it has had on all involved.

TCPID Graduate Emma McPhillips talks about her experience working in Avolon.

TCPID Graduate Eavan Daly talks about her work experience in Chartered Accountants Ireland.

My name is Tomás Murphy. I am a graduate of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Here is a short article about my employment success with A&L Goodbody since graduating from Trinity College Dublin.

We are so proud of our graduate Mei Lin Yap who has been offered a permanent position with our business partner Cpl Resources. Mei Lin was originally employed on a 6 month contract, but this has now been converted to a permanent role. We could not be more proud of her.

My name is Margaret Turley. I am a graduate of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. I have been working with EY since April 2017.

One of our TCPID graduates Mei Lin Yap has recently started working in Cpl Resources in their Dublin office. Mei Lin has already made a huge impact on the Cpl team and was invited to write a blog post for their website about her experiences and her achievements so far.

Paula Conradie and Kieran Biddulph, students from the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities, along with graduate Tomas Murphy tell us about their experience on work placement with some of the TCPID Business Partners.