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James Doorley, NYCI Deputy Director said Census 2016 figures indicate that there are 689,996 people aged 18 to 29 in Ireland.

Youth unemployment has a “scarring effect”, with almost 6,000 young Irish people being long-term unemployed for 12 months or more.

Once upon a time, when black-and-white televisions were generally rented and butter was spared, planning a career path was straightforward enough. Go to school, get your exams — solely academic exams — and eventually get a job.

A €22m investment in apprenticeships — including animation and horticulture along with the more traditional trades — would halve long-term youth unemployment by the end of 2019, it has been claimed.

"It really is a 19th-century system where you have to get forms and fill them in. We create barriers for young people."

“Just be realistic here, because this actually does happen, I’m seen as a nigger... seen as a monkey... We get called these names. That even if it’s not on a daily basis, at least once a week. I’m just saying this actually does go on and you’re not taking it seriously.”

People on zero-hour contracts or similar work situations are so financially precarious some are avoiding going to the doctor or delaying having children.

Almost half of those aged 18 to 29 are working on non-standard contracts, prompting calls for more efforts to provide greater job security for millennials.

Introducing a millionaires tax, phasing out the special rate of Vat for the hospitality sector and scrapping the help to buy scheme have all been suggested by opposition parties ahead of the Budget, writes Elaine Loughlin. 

A new coalition has been formed to end spiralling youth homelessness.

The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) has recommended that Budget 2018 restore the last 200 out of the 600 guidance counselling posts lost to secondary schools in 2012.

The number of people on the Live Register fell to its lowest level since 2008 in July, according to latest figures from the CSO.

More than 11,000 young people across the country are long-term unemployed, according to the latest figures from the Department of Social Protection.

The deeply divisive JobBridge internship programme will close to new participants on Friday, with a new system guaranteeing a series of reforms set to be implemented from next summer.

The Union of Students Ireland (USI) will hold a national day of protest today to put pressure on the Government to find a long-term, publicly financed solution to third-level education funding.

The Union of Students in Ireland expect up to 5,000 students to join their national demonstration march this Wednesday, October, 19.

More than a third of charities have been adversely affected by recent controversies that have hit the sector, with many claiming donations have fallen as a result.

The National Youth Council of Ireland has called for a €30 million package to tackle the high rate of youth unemployment after EU figures showed almost a fifth of young Irish people are not in education, work or training.

Some 59,000 young people are being reminded to register to vote.

The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill is a crucial response to one of our most significant public health problems. Alcohol misuse claims three lives every day in Ireland and we all know someone who has been affected in a harmful way by alcohol use — it is all too common.

Budget 2016 was drawn up to keep the economic recovery going, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has claimed.

Labour TDs have hailed a 50c increase in the minimum wage as a major victory, despite trade unions pushing for a bigger boost to €10 an hour.

Youth unemployment is still double the rate it was at the start of the recession, it has emerged.

Too many students drop out of third-level education because they do not fully understand the course or institution they have applied to, according to the founder of an initiative which aims to tackle the problem.

As the level of unemployment continues to fall, new figures indicate the number of people currently working is the highest it has been in six years.

THE recent article by Niall Murray, under the heading ‘Concern at youth jobless figures’, is depressing news for many of our young people. 

Downward unemployed figures are masking a rise in youth joblessness that should prompt Government action, says the National Youth Council of Ireland.

A trade association representing Dublin’s publicans had lobbied the Government to ban the sale of alcohol at sports clubhouses instead of prohibiting drinks companies from sponsoring sports events.

An alliance of doctors, HSE experts, youth leaders,and campaigners are backing an Oireachtas Health Committee report on the forthcoming Alcohol Bill.

Boys of all ages who clearly identify themselves as being of a different gender than their actual sex should be allowed to enrol in girls’ schools, and vice versa, under changes to a new law being sought by children’s rights’ groups.

A new generation has spoken, said the yes side after a landslide victory and an historic weekend.

People of all ages have been urged to vote in today’s referenda or someone else will get to make their decision for them at the ballot box.