Irish workers are among the world’s elite in terms of tech skills having risen one place to eighth in the World Economic Forum’s latest rankings.

The Digital Skills Academy has announced a second WebElevate programme to train up to 140 job seekers for the digital sector.

Invest Northern Ireland is to provide €360,000 in support of a €1.6m investment by enterprise software company Oracle Corporation in a Belfast facility.

IAN was only 10 when his mother’s partner injected him with heroin. Last year, the people who run Ireland’s first, and only, shelter for young homeless people came across Ian, then a destitute drug addict.

250 jobs are to be created at Oracle’s new centre which was opened by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.