The first-ever apprenticeship degree has been launched at Dublin's Griffith College to tackle the crippling shortage of pub staff.
This three-year course is a work-based learning programme in which apprentices will be able to work, earn, and learn to become fully-qualified bar managers.
The Bar Manager Apprenticeship Degree hopes to reverse the pub sector's post-Covid struggle as nine out of ten hospitality businesses have problems recruiting staff, according to a Fáilte Ireland survey released in February.