Workers ‘must learn new skills to attract jobs’

IRISH workers will be left behind in the jobs market if they do not learn new skills, it was claimed last night.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland said that despite economic success, there were risks ahead. “The bar for international competition is being raised very rapidly and Ireland’s workforce is faced with being left behind in the new environment which is emerging,” said president Eoin O’Driscoll.

He told an audience at a Fourth of July dinner in Dublin, which included the