A NATIONAL internship programme could take 20,000 graduates off the dole queues and help slow the level of emigration, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has claimed.

A start-up firm in Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) has been awarded the Emerging Business of the Year at Genesis Enterprise Awards.

The growing number of affluent people in Northern Ireland are being targeted by Abbey National, who today offered to manage their money for them.