MORE than 70 companies and organisations attended the Northside Partnership’s breakfast briefing on employing people with disabilities or from diverse backgrounds yesterday.

THE Northside Partnership has warned that employers are not hiring people with disabilities or diverse backgrounds because they are afraid of breaching employment legislation unwittingly.

Dublin's Northside Partnership has warned that employers are not hiring people with disabilities or diverse backgrounds because they are afraid of breaching employment legislation unwittingly.

School-leavers from north Dublin are significantly less likely to go to college, according to a group set up to promote enterprise and development in the area.

There are nearly 100 economic blackspots across the country with unemployment levels which are four times higher than the national average, it was claimed today.

THE Chamber of Commerce of Ireland (CCI) has promoted Denise Brennan, former CCI projects executive, to the position of CCI projects manager.

Participants in a new joint initiative by the Northside Partnership will take up to 100 of the 350 jobs at Tesco Ireland's new Clare Hall store due to open on Dublin's north side on July 19.

IRELAND needs a single agency to target juvenile criminals and children who are at risk of getting into trouble with the law, the head of the National Crime Council has said.