Young Irish graduates most highly sought after in Europe, says IBEC

IRELAND’S young graduates are highly regarded as among the brightest, most enthusiastic and best educated in Europe, the director of a key export programme said yesterday.

While the outlook for Irish companies exporting to Europe and the US in 2003 remains more cautious than previous years, our young graduates are making waves abroad, said IBEC's director of the Export Orientation Programme, Caroline Nash.

She made her comments at the opening day of the Annual Business and Enterprise Week at Waterford Institute of Technology.